ABSTRACT
History and thinking e work of Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (March 21, 1736-November 18, 1806) is materially founded. Enigmatic in its development of a hybridization of style and tectonic, his work emerges from a combination of traditional systems of French Neo-Classicism, with a desire to engage materiality and meaning. e combination of style and function embedded with a social and experiential agenda, all through the matter of material, combine to develop an “architecture parlant” but more explicitly a “material parlant.”
