Ko Wibowo, who received a Master of Architecture degree from Texas A&M University in 1996, designed a home to build for his family in a Tacoma, Washington suburb, and the neighbors were not pleased.
At an opposition meeting organized by a contractor who lived in the neighborhood, Wibowo told Dwell magazine “I presented my plan and drawings, but the questions didn’t have anything to do with the idea itself … instead, they were questions like, ‘Hey, you’re designing a metal building, don’t you think it’s going to be hot inside?’”
Dwell magazine featured Wibowo’s tale in its Oct. 2008 issue.
Discouraged, he and his family gave up building on the lot and sold it, but the story has a happy ending — he acquired another lot and had the house built there.
The article, “Magic Mountain,” by Amara Holstein is available online at http://www.dwell.com/homes/new/27149759.html?page=1.
