With the advent of air conditioning, "architects" designed houses ignoring climate and passive cooling/heating techniques. Cookie cutter designs increased econo

With the advent of air conditioning, "architects" designed houses ignoring climate and passive cooling/heating techniques. Cookie cutter designs increased economies of scale, and now we have whole swathes of dwelling land that is reliant on active cooling and heating and with the negative impacts of excessive energy usage and high cost, these things have become nightmares. Houses aren't built to stand on their own as habitable places, but require ongoing cost to do so. To rephrase, houses are not as habitable as they once were. Even with all the technological developments with regard to insulation they're less efficient than well ventilated old wood and plaster homes that have no insulation. The design paradigm for homes is not good.