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Has any of those defensors of traditional (what is traditional? should we build our cities like new skara braes?) lived in a traditional house? I do. It is a complete mess. It´s falling apart, the magnificent proper pitched roof needs repair every year, the arrangement is akward and the space har to use.

I understand your concern, but please, don´t hide your real feelings. You are just conservative and want your old good days back. Sorry, that is imposible. We modern architects (modern because we desing today, we would like in the victorian time but we can´t) love to use the best materials, the best improved pitched roofs, but the truth is that they are too expensive. Are you as good clients as critics?

Have you seen the new houses built in a proper old manner? They are not exactly the romantic thatch roof houses you would like to see, and modern british cities are build like that, not with modern style. Go to germany or holland, where the architectonic culture is higher, and see what can be done in modern intelligent way (not style, please)

Said that. British modern architecture stinks. That doesn´t help either.