As I look through winners and honorable mentions of a future house, architectural competition I wonder where all the new ideas need to be.
Clearly the new ideas are having problems getting to the main stream. The new houses in my neighborhood have traditional water heater tanks, regular hvac systems, no exceptional attributed that distinguish it from then house I lived in in the 1970s. Except the microwave is built-in, and the fireplace is gas logs rather than wood burning.
I wonder, is it cost that keeps the future at bay? Demand? Awareness? Taxes?
Whatever it may be -- my prediction is that in the next generation a great leap forward will happen. And housing and architecture will be deeply effected. But we'll probably still have built-in microwave ovens.
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