I Beg to Differ
Mar. 3rd, 2010 10:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dcseainI'm currently working through some of my backlog of unread books. Right now, i'm reading How Buildings Learn: What happens after they're built. On Page 150 is a paragraph:
My friends and i didn't draw houses like that. We drew ones that were two stories, door either in the middle or off to one side, usually a total of 5 bays wide including the door, with a slightly pitched roof, chimney more usually off to one side rather than centered, with a swirl of smoke, a path to the door may or may not be present, but a lawn was always was present.
Children draw houses as unpreventably as they draw faces. No matter where they actually live, they nearly all draw the same house—one story, door in the middle, two windows to each side, pitched roof seen from the front, a central chimney with a swirl of smoke, and an inviting path up to the door. The classic Cap Cod house. It is so simple, rudimentary, austere, and yet practical that it fulfills the mythic image of the house.
My friends and i didn't draw houses like that. We drew ones that were two stories, door either in the middle or off to one side, usually a total of 5 bays wide including the door, with a slightly pitched roof, chimney more usually off to one side rather than centered, with a swirl of smoke, a path to the door may or may not be present, but a lawn was always was present.
