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Olivier Cablat — DUCK book cover
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DUCK

Olivier Cablat

  • 16 x 23 cm
  • Soft cover
  • 256 pages
  • 217 colour photographs
32€

In 1930, duck farmer Martin Maurer from Flanders, Long Island, decided to construct a giant duck-shaped shop to promote and sell peking ducks he raised. In 1972 Robert Venturi, Denise Scott- Brown, and Steven Izenour study the architecture of the city of Los Angeles, outlining 2 main concepts of popular, functional and commercial architecture : the decorated shed and the «Duck» : a building in which the form highlights its primary function in a literal and most often ostentatiously playful manner. Such a building is at the same time a sculpture and a sign : the term honours the Big Duck on Flanders.