There's a happy medium. A lot of things like roof trusses are much more precisely and cheaply built in a shop and then transported to the site. But, yes, most

There's a happy medium. A lot of things like roof trusses are much more precisely and cheaply built in a shop and then transported to the site. But, yes, most houses around me have so many flaws that it seems problematic to count them as assets. Christopher Alexander has a lengthy calculation on this in 'The Nature of Order.'