'cinderblock utilitarianism' is exactly in-line with _The Timeless Way of Building_. Four square walls and a peaked roof? Job done for the next 300 years.
Mea culpa. I think I was using “The Timeless Way of Building” as shorthand for “Pattern Language”. Or at least, I was thinking of the list of desirable properties rather than the method of construction.
Of course, if you designed and built such a thing all at once using a giant 3D printer, I guess you'd be building in an entirely new way, which would be completely different :-)
