If this was a school of architecture , I think its architect would have flunked out , '' says Mr. Koppelman , a florist 's son who got his start as a landscape architect , first in Astoria , Queens , and later in Smithtown , and lives with his wife , Connie , in a modern home he built himself facing West Meadow Creek in Stony Brook .
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