Housing For 2002: Fusion-style Homes

The annual International Builders Show has typically offered some pretty lousy home designs. This year the push is for "fusion homes."

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February 22, 2002, 6:00 AM PST

By Chris Steins @planetizen

The 2002 New American Home is an example of "fusion-style architecture," according to architect Melanie Taylor of New Haven, Conn. "We have taken classic American style and combined it with more exotic influences, spicing it with the flavor of the Caribbean and infusing it with new technology.... The four-bedroom, 51/2-bath house, in a development of traditional Georgian brick homes called Vining Estates, also was designed to look as if it was added to over time rather than built all at once..."

Thanks to Chris Steins

Read the full story: This year's model: 'Fusion-style' home

Thursday, February 21, 2002 in The Philadelphia Inquirer

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