The ideas behind the DIY aesthetic are good ones. The problem is, as with most things, the real ideas behind them have moved to the side and now we have a bunch of hipsters into DIY because they want everyone to see the shirt they made on their blog. Have people forgotten that everything used to be DIY? People made their own clothes and built their own houses, not to show them off to people, but because they NEEDED THEM.
That being said, this is pretty cool:
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat...hitecture.html