"It was devastating," says Richard Tyler, 51, of Biloxi, Miss., a single father of three. "One day you walk out of your house, and the next day everything you own is gone." But with help from Architecture for Humanity, which arranged for architects to donate designs for seven new houses in Biloxi, and the Arkansas architect Marlon Blackwell, AIA, he now has a brand-new home-one that's the talk of the town. We went to meet the architects and see models of the houses at the Salvation Army building. My son, who was about 13 or 14 at the time, was the one to pick the design. It was so modern-looking. It wasn't just a conventional house-it had a futuristic look to it. It's a stop-and-stare kind of house.
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