[demshateGod]

That’s a good point. My response, however, was to a post focusing on aesthetics.

I’m an architect. As such we spend considerable time and brain damage negotiating codes and permits. I have no sympathy for those who get caught circumventing building codes.

[AnAmericanMother]

I'm not an architect -- but my family always employs an architect when we build (parents have built four times, we've built twice). Spec builders don't necessarily understand things like "A Pattern Language" or "The Not So Big House".

I do understand what you're saying - but in the architect's defense, this is a primarily Orthodox country, so he's not used to working in the RC idiom. Sort of like 19th c. Southern vernacular interpretations of the Parthenon. At least that would be my defense. :-)