Once again James Lileks has produced an interesting piece on architecture, of all things. He was spurred by a new development near Rochester, Minnesota, where the homes basically look like shoeboxes from IKEA. They have a modern, minimilistic approach, and their garages are detached. Doesn't seem the type of thing you'd want for a cold Minnesota winter.
An article on the development just dotes on them, though, while pooh-poohing the idea of what it calls "McMansions," a word describing larger, cheaply made, but functional homes with attached garages.
It seems to me that if you're building a planned community on the Minnesota prairie that maybe, just maybe, you could build them in a classic Prairie-style design.
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