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In the comment you're replying to, I was thinking of the "architect" being basically replaced by a software package that designs the whole house based on the required criteria. Any aesthetic judgments are encoded in the software's heuristics, and the range of available styles are basically part of the brand of the company responsible for this house-designing-and-building service. Allowing people to directly design th…
There's a subplot of that in Kirk Vonnegut's novel Timequake ...though it involves a parking garage in the style of Thomas Jefferson.
Huh, I started that book once and never finished it. Maybe I should.