There is a company in China that is building a modular high rise in 90 days. I would be impressed, but such spectacular and misleading examples of productivity have been around since the 1920's. My long running argument is that productivity in architecture and construction has flatlined, and with increasing planning and building complexity, has even begun to decline in certain areas.
This post-war house in Levittown could be efficiently built in a few weeks or a few months. Some production builders in the America south are capable of erecting homes twice this size with 3 bathrooms in under two weeks. To my eye, that's a lateral improvement.
Compared to the cathedrals, modern design and construction moves at a fast pace. But, every project is different. The planning and permitting process for a high rise in Boston can sometime take more than a decade. The building in China I referred to above looks like it is being built in a wilderness, on a flat, uncrowded site.
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