Five Unusual Houses

A documentary film "Home Movie" features five unusual houses and their unconventional owners.

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May 7, 2002, 3:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"The Skora house is one of five in the documentary film "Home Movie," which opens in New York tomorrow. There is not a chic loft or a McMansion among them. All five homes offer an architectural reflection of their unconventional owners, who have a pronounced do-it-yourself streak and have paid little attention to design trends and even less to resale value..."Home Movie" suggest that American culture is more hostile to idiosyncrasy than people tend to admit."

Thanks to The Practice of New Urbanism

Read the full story: Free-Spirited Dwellings in a Tract-House Nation

Thursday, May 2, 2002 in The New York Times

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