The Textbook of Architecture

Glossary · S

Shingle

Also called shingles, shingled

A thin tile of split or sawn wood, usually cedar, laid in overlapping courses on roofs and walls; in America the covering of the Shingle style and the Craftsman bungalow.

See also: Clapboard

Where it appears in the book

In the chapters Byzantium and the Early Church.

A feature of Craftsman architecture.

Nearby in the glossary

Shell · Shengqi · Shikhara · Shinbashira · Shinmei-zukuri · Shoin · Shoji · Siheyuan