That's exactly how I'd expect Christopher Alexander's house to look. The buildings he praises in his work include few cathedrals, and many folk houses in traditional villages around the world. He wrote that the clean, sterile lines of Modernism were designed to enhance the egos of architects, not the lives of their clients. The houses he built in Mexico (The Production of Houses) were made cheaply, using community labor, from handmade local materials.

He also believes that a building is never finished, and should be continually modified by its inhabitants. (Stewart Brand's How Buildings Learn is another book that should be read by both programmers and architects.)