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Mythic Proportions

“From working with architects before, I’m most happy with the result when I give up as much control and decision-making as possible to them.”
STEVEN ALPER, RESIDENT

results, but municipal codes and permitting processes can also be design downers. So much so that Steven Alper, a retired dentist turned something of an architecture impresario, dreamed up a way to evade them altogether, even while

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