VLVL imbricate

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy all,
--- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
in part 

> P.S. T's mistaken on the mansard roof assertion, too. 
> The hand-made campers in this part of the world
> (Northern California) feature a gable, gambrel or hip
> roof. 

I read it as a hip form, which would make a sort of distorted pyramid,
coming to what P describes as a point. With cedar shingled sides.
Laymen tend to call any wood shingle a "shake", and so I automatically
discount that term as a definitive describer even from our man P. In my
experience it is an uncommonly well educated carpenter that knows the
difference either, so hats off all round to T, who pays attention to
the physical world as well as the literary one, and should be
applauded.

All you architecture buffs out there --- see Venturi's unbuilt House in
Tuxedo Park in "On Houses and Housing" (the marker sketch in "Out of
the Ordinary" doesn't do it justice at all).

Mark

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