Modernist Homes -- Cheap
20 June 2002 - 5:00am
Business Week interviews architect William Massie, who is pioneering the use of technology to build daring homes.
"Massie is a sort of poor person's Frank Gehry in that, like his famous counterpart, he designs his daring curved structures on a computer. The difference is that Massie's computer is an inexpensive Dell PC attached to a numerically controlled cutting machine in the cramped shop of his four-person architectural firm in Bozeman... Massie makes heavy use of concrete, cut steel, and other inexpensive materials to keep construction costs low."
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Daring, Modernist Homes -- on the Cheap
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Business Week, June 18, 2002
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