Generating the Grammar of Architecture Henry Glassie Semiotica 7:4(1973),

Henry Glassie B.A.Tulane University in 1964 M.A.Cooperstown Program (Oneonta) in 1965 Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania in 1969 Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States (1969) Folk Housing in Middle Virginia: A Structural analysis of Historic Artifacts (1975) All Silver and No Brass: An Irish Christmas Mumming (1975) Passing the Time in Ballymenone (1982) Irish Folktales (1985) The Spirit of Folk Art (1989) Turkish Traditional Art Today (1993) Art and Life in Bangladesh (1997) Material Culture (1999) The Potters Art (1999) Vernacular Architecture (2000) The Stars of Ballymenone (2006) Prince Twins Seven-Seven (2010) Faculty Positions Indiana University, Bloomington UVa Summer Scholars Brown University University of Pennsylvania Indiana University Bloomington

Figure 2: Southern Mountain Cabins of the Square Type. from Henry Glassie’s “The Types of the Southern Mountain Cabin” (1968, Pg. 352). Figure text includes locational information and date of recording. Plans include conventions for planked log walls, door and window jambs, and scale. Drawn from photographs. Example A. “V-notched cabin situated south of Fletcher, near Hood, Greene County, Virginia (July 1963).” Example B. “This cabin was built of balloon (light, sawed, nailed together) frame covered with vertical boards. When the shed was added to the chimney end both parts were covered with weatherboards. It is located between Crozet and Whitehall, Albemarle County, Virginia (August 1964).” Example C. “V-notched cabin with rear shed addition situated north of Boones Mill, Roanoke County, Virginia (August 1965).”

Figure 4: Type 4, House K. The Brooking house. from Henry Glassie’s Folk Housing in Middle Virginia (1975, pg. 81). Figure text includes locational information. Photographs are consistently used for elevations, plans include convention for gable orientation and window sash, but do not represent door jambs. “The central (eighteenth-century) part of this house is an example of a type 4 house.”

Figure 5: Mrs Cutler’s House. from Henry Glassie’s Passing the Time in Ballymenone (1982, pg. 335). Photographs are used for elevations, plans include locations for chairs, tables and beds, indicating the occupation of space and location of activity.