Architects don't see or touch normal residential houses. They only get called in to work on high end custom homes. Normal residential homes are designed and bu

Architects don't see or touch normal residential houses. They only get called in to work on high end custom homes. Normal residential homes are designed and built by companies that are devoid of real architects and engineers, and specialize in doing things as cheaply and quickly as inhumanly possible and at mass scales. Production building companies are totally happy to break as many laws as they can in the process, so long as they don't get caught, or the fines are sufficiently low enough that it just becomes just a part of doing business.