[[Cosmology]] [[Worldmaking]] Some of the clearest examples of a cosmological approach to [[Design]] are by Etienne Louis Boullée. This was also called Architecture Parlante. **Architecture parlante** (“speaking architecture”) is [architecture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture "Architecture") that explains its own function or identity. The phrase was originally associated with [Claude Nicolas Ledoux](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Nicolas_Ledoux), and was extended to other Paris-trained architects of the [Revolutionary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_revolution "French revolution") period, [Étienne-Louis Boullée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne-Louis_Boull%C3%A9e "Étienne-Louis Boullée"), and [Jean-Jacques Lequeu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Lequeu "Jean-Jacques Lequeu"). [Emil Kaufmann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Kaufmann "Emil Kaufmann") traced its first use to an anonymous critical essay with Ledoux's work as the subject, written for _Magasin pittoresque_ in 1852, and entitled "Etudes d'architecture en France". ![[Boullee_Etienne-Louis_1784_Cenotaphe_a_Newton_2.jpg]] Cénotaphe à Newton (Newton Memorial), 1784 ![[Boullee_Etienne-Louis_1784_Cenotaphe_a_Newton.jpg]] Cénotaphe à Newton (Newton Memorial), 1784 Links via Monoskop: https://monoskop.org/log/?p=10065