How a house is built
Face versus structure
Overlapped joints let masonry act together. Brick on a wood house is usually a cladding, not the structure.
Arrow keys turn the house. Plus and minus, or the zoom buttons, change the zoom. A horizontal drag turns it after you tap the drawing. Reset view returns to the step camera.
The drawing needs WebGL. The notes on the page still stand.
In running bond, each unit overlaps the joint below. The wall shares load across those overlaps. In stack bond the joints line up, which is weaker unless the wall is reinforced to make up for it. A structural masonry wall is the structure. Brick veneer tied to a wood frame is a rain coat. It needs a cavity, weep holes, and ties. It does not hold up the floors.
This house is drawn with siding courses and a board-and-batten gable, not with brick. The bond diagram is here because the question comes up as soon as someone asks whether the outside face is holding the roof.