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"McMansion Hell" Founder Kate Wagner's TED Talk on Building Awareness of Architectural Follies

"It looks like it is a screaming animal"

By Rain Noe - July 5, 2018

in Architecture

In the last post on McMansion Hell I failed to credit Kate Wagner, who specializes in architectural acoustics, as the site's author and founder. Apologies to Ms. Wagner, who last year presented this excellent TED Talk on how the McMansion problem started and what architecture should and shouldn't do. She is as funny on video as she is in print:

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Thanks to readers Rob and Billy for the alert!

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simon a.

6 years ago

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Thank you, but I do not like that this is used to make fun off; appreciate the people who dare to build these 'mistakes' and the people happy to live in them.
Laughing at it show a misplaced sense of superiority.

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Billy Mack

6 years ago

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Thank you Rain!

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George Mokray

6 years ago

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On a larger scale there's James Howard Kunstler's Eyesore of the Month: http://kunstler.com/featured-eyesore-of-the-month/

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