NYT profile of Cameron Sinclair, founder of Architecture for Humanity.

Modern windows is a new topic of discussion in the dwell forums.

Among the millions put out by the power loss last week were the nearly 600 designers and students attending the Industrial Designers Society of America's annual conference. When the hotel closed on Thursday because emergency generators had shut down, people who head design departments at corporations like I.B.M. and Motorola were put on the street for the night—at the mercy of their own designs, their consciences as professionals and whatever impromptu designing they cared to do.

Dear Nest Products. I'd like to place an order for the Herb chintz fabric.

dwell forums: Why is it that people tend to choose traditional style homes over modern, contemporary homes?

The most striking part of the structure is a tilted wall of windows -- to be installed later this month -- measuring roughly four metres by 10 and facing south. Below the windows will be a wide planter that serves as an indoor garden. It will be irrigated from water from the laundry room. The kitchen and living area, in particular, will be like a liveable greenhouse. "It's supposed to be like a ship, designed to supply your every need, including food," said Lefebvre.

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"I would say tiki, and people would say, `What's that?" said Mr. Fisherman, scratching his goatee, his eyes wide behind rectangular glasses. "Nobody had ever heard of it. I was sad."

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I am not rich, famous or heroic. No one pounds at my door—thank God—asking for either my sperm or my autograph.

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Unlike most of Timberline's dome-dreaming clientele, Ingle and Thompson had no particular drive to become dome dwellers. "I got the first Whole Earth Catalog and was excited," he says, shrugging. "I'm part of that generation. But I never thought I would live in a dome."

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