The history of American residential architecture has always been kind of like an all-you-can-eat buffet," says architect Susan Piedmont-Palladino, director of Virginia Tech's Washington Alexandria Architecture Center. "We can borrow anybody's style of architecture and I'm not sure that's the attitude in other countries around the world. I also think we're dominated by the single family house in a way that other places aren't."
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