Nah. This is a problem of building codes and regulations.

It's not reasonable to expect everyone who needs a building to be an architect.

It is reasonable for all architects to make safe buildings. However, the definition of "safe" is always relative. There is no such thing as any activity being 100% safe. So it's up to a oversight body (within or beyond the architecture firm) to dictate what level of over-design (safety) is mandatory.


If the architects have met the necessary building codes, then made the lowest bid by barely scraping those codes... and the buyer took the lowest bid without understanding that it meant lower quality... then that's just people making bad choices... which is what the free market is all about.