English Explanatory Dictionary

duck architecture

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A style of novelty building where the structure's shape is the direct representation of its function.

Word forms

duck architecture

Etymology

From duck + architecture. The term was coined by architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown in 1968; inspired by the original "Big Duck" building in Long Island, New York, built in 1931 to sell ducks and duck eggs.

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