How Brad Pitt's green housing dream for Hurricane Katrina survivors turned into a nightmare

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5. The MIR houses seem to have been conceived in some alternate universe

...where there is no weather and where appearance is everything. It reminds me strongly of the accusations of the "winners" of the reality show that pimped peoples' homes did everything half-assed because, well, movie carpentry only has to work for the duration of the shoot, not for a lifetime. The MIR houses were all wacky and while fun-looking from a distance were not really practical. They were kind of like a Frank Lloyd Wright house like Falling Water, beautiful but not really meant to live in and a nightmare if you tried to actually live in one.