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The UW's Lionel Pries | A visionary architect and teacher is finally celebrated
In his own house, Pries used affordable modern materials -- concrete, concrete block and cement-asbestos board. A"butterfly" roof sloping upward cantilevers over the living-room glass wall, its canopy providing a canvas for Northwest Native American paintings.