“Are you an architect?” asked the Suffolk County Parks representative inside the architecturally famous Big Duck in Flanders, Long Island, “I can always tell.” The Big Duck is one of those iconic must visits for architects and architectural historians – on par with a visit to Le Corbusier‘s Villa Savoye outside Paris. The Big Duck gave rise to an architectural term – a “duck” – or a building whose shape represents the business or service available inside, thanks to its inclusion in the famous book Learning from Las Vegas by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown about roadside architecture.
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