Budget Breakdown: An Austin Architect Spins Michael Pollan’s Food Advice Into a Healthy Home

Greg Esparza takes one of his architectural cues from his days running an Austin, Texas, farmers’ market back in 2009, when he was also launching his design career. "It’s like the Michael Pollan rule: Eat food, not too much, mostly plants," Greg says. "If we are trying to nourish ourselves with ingredients our grandmother would recognize, why wouldn’t I want to build a house with materials she would recognize?"