Order of operation (designs)

[Trusin]

Seems odd that as a society you just "have access" to buildings and in order to "design" a new building you have to build up to the design studio. Feels like you should be able to design and make the basic buildings so that your entire empire can start off with a theme instead of having to use predesigned buildings. Like handcrafting a blank piece of paper you can "draw Up" a design of a farm, carpenter, ect..

[Vectorus]

I haven't faced that problem for a long time, but when I started out I did find it odd, since the design studio seemed quite low down the list of priorities.