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It may be that the future of American housing is visible on a seventy-acre farm in Perryville, Missouri, a town of some eight thousand people in the rolling hills of the southeastern part of the state. The farm is owned by Rocio Romero, a thirty-four-year-old architect. In 2000, her parents asked her to design a simple, inexpensive vacation home in Chile, where they grew up. Romero came up with a sleek, metal-clad box that she named the L.V., for the place where it was built--Laguna Verde, a beach town an hour and a half west of Santiago. It wasn't quite as cheap as her parents had hoped it would be--the cost was thirty-five thousand dollars--but during the construction ...