modernists: The Sagaponac Effect: Modernist Subdivisions Multiply [US]

Nilay Oza, a project architect for the well-known Houses at Sagaponac, 
in the Hamptons on Long Island, has found that real estate developers 
want to emulate this Modernist enclave. “I advise people about economies 
of scale, and finding constants between different designs,” he says of 
phone calls he’s fielded from throughout the U.S.

Based on what you have seen and read about this project, how would you 
grade it? Use the stars below to indicate your assessment, five stars 
being the highest rating.

Although only seven of the 32 planned Houses at Sagaponac are finished, 
developers are citing that and other precedents, including the New 
Urbanist community Aqua, in Miami, Florida, Prospect New Town, in 
Colorado, and the Case Study Houses of 1945–1966 for their own similar 
projects. Even in regions not normally associated with a Modernist 
residential tradition developers are creating subdivisions that offer 
smorgasbords of contemporary architecture. American Institute of 
Architects chief economist Kermit Baker, Hon. AIA, calls the schemes 
“very 2003 or 2004, in that they express this sky’s-the-limit mentality 
that as opposed to today’s realities.” Yet he and developers believe 
that this extremely small niche could better withstand the housing 
downturn than more traditional single-family product.

cont'd....
http://archrecord.construction.com/news/daily/archives/080325sagaponac.asp