Architecture parlante
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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.
Big Duck
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The Big Duck is a 20-foot-tall ferrocement building in the shape of a duck: a canonical example of novelty architecture. Built in 1931 in Riverhead, New York, United States, it was moved several times
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…In the terminology of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, "any building that is shaped like its product is called a 'duck'," in reference to the Big Duck…
Big Duck in 2018
US Trademark 296,767: The Big Duck Ranch
Moving the Big Duck, 1988
Historic site marker on New York State Route 24 before the Duck