Dream Homes

摘要

A popular song in the 1960s famously dismissed newly constructed Californian housing as "little boxes made out of ticky-tacky" that all looked just the same. And social critics have complained endlessly about the drab conformity of London's suburbs―suggesting occasionally, in despair, that people who chose to live in identical houses could never be expected to have the revolution they so obviously needed. Now a different revolution could be coming. Software developers, engineers and architects are promising to transform the construction industry with a mixture of computer-aided design and the latest in industrial manufacturing technology. Their ideas could turn the industry's traditional hierarchy of house buyer, builder and architect on its head. In its place will come personalised architecture for all. Welcome to a world of infinite variety.