Dive summary:

• It is bound to bring confusion about what to call the people who do the work, but 3-D house printing seems to be a goal that insists on being reached eventually, and DUS Architects in Amsterdam is taking its shot by deciding it will "print" a canal house – a tall, thin home – that it says is symbolic of Amsterdam's heritage and architecture.
• The carpenter's tool, sort of, for the job is a 20-foot-tall printer called the KamerMaker that will use polypropylene to form the structural elements, with the name deriving from the Dutch word for "room" – "kamer" (akin to the English "chamber.")
• The firm is first making 1:20-scale components to test, then hopes to "print" 1:1 components and have the canal house done by year's end.

From the article:

"We believe in the importance of the designing of the public domain, and nowadays that involves both the physical world and the virtual world," the company told Gizmag. ...