Published August 15, 2009, 08:45 AM

BEST KEPT SECRETS: Your Pod or Mine?

My obsession (kind of like Richard Dreyfuss’ in Close Encounters of the Third Kind) began in the fall of 1970 with a “Playboy” I found under my brother Glen’s bed. I brought it up in a family meeting about what to do with the derelict building we had just bought next door to our house in Chicago. “Let's put a Futuro House there!” I said.

By: Robin Washington, Photography by Julia Cheng, Living North Magazine

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