A-frame

""A" was the architectural letterform of leisure-time houses in postwar America. Eager to stake out mountain and lakeside retreats, an entire generation of weekend builders found the A-frame a simple and affordable home to construct, its steeply sloping triangular shape distinctive and easy to maintain (almost no exterior walls to paint!). Fueled by A-frame plans and kits, the A-frame became something of a national craze, with tens of thousands of built." "In the process, the A-frame evolved into an icon for recreation. Agreeably modern and comfortably traditional, it was used to market a…