What this view is missing is how much of historical architecture was actually Craft. People didn’t go in a computer and design things to be built out of a bunch

What this view is missing is how much of historical architecture was actually Craft. People didn’t go in a computer and design things to be built out of a bunch of commodity parts. Local humans knew how to make things by hand out of wood and masonry, according to certain traditional methods, and the humans experimented just a little bit with their methods on every building. This is the bread and butter of every vernacular architectural style. This has effectively gone extinct in the developed world, because we don’t do labor like this anymore.