Why don't we use awnings anymore (2022)

We don’t use awnings because of roof overhangs. Local architects compute the sun angle for the given location. During the winter you can allow more light in and during the summer when the sun is higher, you can let less light in.

This is not true for any house I've lived in. No awnings, but there was also definitely no effort to compute roof angles to maximize shade in the summer.

Depending on the home's orientation you may not be able to pull that off at all even if you tried.

And tract houses use the same designs but rotated and flipped for an entire development. No one is calculating any kind of roof angles there.

In my area, very little thought seems to be given to house details like solar exposure and orientation of the house. They put them up as fast as possible, built to code minimums.

The majority of the time the house angle is determined by the street it is on. The house is usually aligned directly with the street, with zero regard given to sun angles and shading.

This was written in a very confident way, but I can say with at least as much confidence that my house was mass produced in a factory and assembled locally in the middle of nowhere without any regard for local architecture.

It mentioned "local architects" after all...

The statement is still wrong. Awnings and local architects are both extinct so clearly the architects didn't kill the awnings.

I mean yeah, if you have a big house with large porches / overhangs that'll work. But those are luxury houses which only few people have access to.

My house has strategic overhangs (and trees with summer foliage to the south) leading to drastically different winter/summer insolation. (in addition, the dark stonework on the ground floor functions to passively clear light snow in spring and early winter)

It was built in the XX, but according to local vernacular, which likely (we have a few examples surviving from the XIII) predates both the modern profession of "architect" and metal-framed awnings.

(my friend the architect has plenty of local work, but maybe that's because we live in different countries?)

Local architects are certainly not extinct.

Definitely not, although most laces I’ve lived they have a superficial at most involvement with single family homes.