Roofs

Driving home today I noticed, not that I didn't know this before, the scale and size of roofs being plopped on a development around the corner from my house. These "town houses" are, of course, not in a town, and if anything, more like apartments. The height and scale of the roof trusses being placed on these buildings affords no additional usable space for the owners and are choppy and out of scale with the "details" of the buildings being constructed below. The enormous scale of these trussed roofs and lack of utility is astounding to clients who should be getting more bang for their buck in this economy. Such lack of attention to construction detail or scale is still astounding to me. Some "architect" designed and signed off on these drawings. I know there is no "Hippocratic Oath" of architecture, but to ignore the built environment and only focus on the dollars to be made is irresponsible, to say the least. These other designers went to school and were our classmates, how do we ignore these serious design gaffes? As architecture students, were were all under the same roof, so how did we let them stray from under our tent? Let's reign back the waste and focus on design.