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One of the difficulties of suburban development is to
make each house appear the prototype. Economies
of production demand the more stereotyped. How
do you reconcile that?
The house here absolutely needs to be able to be
repeated. There’s just not the budget to have an
architect working on it for two years, for instance.
We tried to almost treat the thing as a frame with the
front facade, so windows could be plugged on in
different ways to give it individuality.
After your experience with some glamorous and
celebrity housing, can this sort of project be exciting
in another way?
I found it really exciting to go to the house when it was
finished and see people using it. I think regardless of
how much a house costs, that feeling you get in the
end of just a really healthy, calm space is the same,
regardless of what the finishes are, or where it is.