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Christopher Alexander wrote a lot of books with rules for building. He also said in one of his talks that he could imagine software that could generate a building (or the basic form) with the rules as constraints but with user input for the details.

I believe that would be great to have. And this post looks very promising that such software is possible.

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There's a pretty cool project by oskar stalberg that does something like that (arguably even better because the output is often very beautiful).

https://twitter.com/OskSta/status/1266264444276858884

Arguably the first iteration of that was Sketchpad (1963). You had a template with rules, then you could change parameters (e.g. size) and it'd apply the template rules to the new input.

Here's an Alan Kay talking about it in 1987: https://archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987?start=249.5

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