[Cville Abode, by Erika Howsare] One of the great things about being an architect, it seems—aside from the chance to design one’s own dwelling—is the ability to discuss that dwelling in all kinds of interesting terms.

A courtyard is enclosed by one of three L-shaped concrete walls that form the structure of Parcel X, Peter and Nancy Waldman’s North Garden home.

Take, for example, the house of Peter and Nancy Waldman, which he (a professor in UVA’s School of Architecture) designed in 1994 and describes at different times as a moving van, a campsite, a warehouse, a textbook and a future archaeological dig. Each is an apt comparison in some way, but first it helps to know some basics about the industrial-style, metal-clad house built on nearly four sloping, wooded acres in North Garden.

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