The US has very different environmental constraints than Europe when it comes to construction. We have strong earthquakes across much of the country, which does violence to masonry. We have more severe and extreme weather than exists in Europe. The US has prodigious quantities of cheap timber for construction, which is increasingly an anachronism in Europe. American construction is optimized for the American environment. Also, the idea that this construction doesn’t last centuries is evidently false, many people live in wood houses built in the 19th and 18th century.

The tl;dr: US housing is highly optimized for local conditions, as is the case everywhere. If you built European housing in much of the US it would be destroyed by the ambient environment or not compliant with safety regulations.