Architecture parlante is architecture that explains its own function or identity.
“Temple of the Earth”, drawing by Jean-Jacques Lequeu from his manuscript Architecture Civile.
Étienne-Louis Boullée was a visionary French neoclassical architect whose work greatly influenced contemporary architects.
Hôtel de Brunoy, ca. 1780
Boullée, Cénotaphe à Newton (1784)
Project for the Cénotaphe à Newton, 1784
Cross-section with day effect