#speaking architecture

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Konstantin Melnikov, Gosplan Garage, Moscow, Russia, 1934-1936 VS Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Projet de cimetière de la cité idéale de Chaux, 1804

on PLOT #38

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Architecture parlante (“speaking architecture”) is architecture that explains its own function or identity. The phrase was originally associated with Claude Nicolas Ledoux, and was extended to other Paris-trained architects of the Revolutionary period, Étienne-Louis Boullée, and Jean-Jacques Lequeu.

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SPEAKING ARCHITECTURE