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Supersize My House!
How McMansions go wrong.
Click here to read a slide-show essay on McMansions and other big houses.
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Witold Rybczynski is Slate's architecture critic His latest book is The Biography of a Building: How Robert Sainsbury and Norman Foster Built a Great Museum. Visit his Web site. Follow him on Twitter.
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