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Houses Woven Out of Trees Proposed
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Living in the Trees
By Gail Hennessey
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Home & Garden
By Tracy Staedter
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MIT plants seeds of a new kind of house
By Carolyn Johnson
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Grow your second home
By Gregory Mone
Newsweek:
Terreform: Building Houses Out of Living Trees
By Linda Stern
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Linda Stern, "Beware of Squirrels," Newsweek , p. E2, May 28, 2007.

James Nestor, "Branching Out," Dwell, Vol. 7 No. 3, pp. 96-98, Feb. 2007.

Gregory Mone, "Grow your second home," Popular Science, pp. 38-9, Nov. 2006.

Carolyn Johnson, "MIT plants seeds of a new kind of house" , The Boston Globe, p.C1, Sept. 25th, 2006.

Tracy Staedter, “House and Garden - Architects design a living home," Technology Review, pp. m2-m9, VOL. 109/ NO.3, July/ August, 2006.

Gail Hennessey, "Living in the Trees, " Scholastic News, Mar. 9, 2006.

Tracy Staedter, "Houses Woven Out of Trees Proposed," Discovery News, Jan. 20, 2006.
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Meredith Wall, "Treehouse Turns Into House of Trees, " Specifier, Issue 68, 2006.

Larissa Vázquez Zapata, "Casa verde, ambiente verde," El Nuevo Día, Sun.  April 24, 2005.

M. Joachim, "Fab Tree Hab," 306090 08: Autonomous Urbanism, Monson & Duval, ed., Princeton Architectural Press, 2005.

Richard Reames, Arborsculpture- Solutions for a Small Planet, Arborsmith Studios, 2005.

David J. Brown, Ed., The HOME House Project: The Future of Affordable Housing, MIT Press, 2004.

M. Joachim, J. Arbona, L. Greden, "Fab Tree Hab," Thresholds Journal #26 DENATURED, MIT, 2003.

Chris Lackner, "Grow your own home: Fab Tree Hab", Ottawa Citizen, p.A13 , Thur. March 8, 2007.
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