Banned House Design Wins AIA Award
A nationally known architect won an award for student-targeted, pod house design that was banned from a campus neighborhood by city of Gainesville, FL.
"City officials argued that the house would bring more students to single-family neighborhoods - something now attributed to the decline of many subdivisions near [Univ. of Florida] ..."Casa Gator" was recently honored by the Florida branch of the American Institute of Architects for outstanding design...Maybe city planners should have taken the architecture class."
Thanks to Bob Karrow
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Published on Monday, November 17, 2003 in
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