Yeah, I think the McMansion look comes about only when there’s a sort of lack of cohesion to the building as a whole structure. That house has a clear and rather straightforward profile, still using a lot of garish detail, but it’s clearly doing something intentional with it. I used to draw little towns and cities of twitchy sinewy buildings at one point and I often looked at the sprawling houses I saw in certain-kinds-of-rich Dallas neighborhoods as inspiration as I thought about it. It’s like a mansion has cancer and started overproducing windows and gables. The nightmare of the American Dream has weird geometry.
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