hegemony

awol, don't forget slashes and back slashes used the same way as your parantheses: sprinkle gratuitously to either divide a single word or needlessly call out a juxtaposition!

dis/connect

both/and

fucking/annoying

From my shallow experience at Harvard GSD during Career Discovery:

Rem
Corbu
spatial hierarchy
linear
nonlinear
dialogue
potential
navigation
ramp ( because of that stupid Carpenter Center)
grid
parti
interlock
incorporate
context
porosity
Gehry
Eisenman
starchitect
genius
talent
tangent

NoSleep, I'm at Cincy. My class put together that jargon video (and a bunch of other videos about the jargon) as protest instead of writing end-of-quarter papers. Some profs were a little unhappy...it was glorious.

scale

curvilinear. any word with -ality added to it.

How come that video is three minutes long, but nothing happens after the second minute?

hey
what's up
time
class
computer
rhino
maya
autocad
render
print
plot
hot
cold
tired
excited
deadline
food
draw
model

interoperability

datum

architectonic

(99% of presentations end with)

I guess that's it...

verticality
horizontality
directionality
interiority
exteriority
programmatic
discourse
process..

transmogify.

IDEA

my ***favorite*** words...

contrapuntal

it means having attributes of counterpoint...and...

diaphanous

meaning almost completely transparent


I don't like it when my teacher uses the word "no"...as in...

that could be straighter,no? we need to work on craft, no?( w/ emphasis on "no")

Yuck!!! That demeanor of speech needs to be shipped that back to the graduate school in New York from which it came.

horizontality? lol

pocket

operation

operative

strategy

"where's your surface?"

"draw first -- justify later"

bestial

topological adjustment

tectonic
"dead cat space"
and "wart"... as in "what is this wart here on your building?!" (professor rips part of your model off. with justification.)

Super ........

interpretation
int/exteriorality
phenomenone
emphasize
intention

scale
void
space

coffee

Shit

Fuck

Goddamn it

Fucking hell

photo montage

density matrices
unitary operators
ket-vectors
Wavefunction........

....just kidding

BIFURCATE

was very commonly used in my thesis studio.

"the holocaust is interesting..."

"at the end of the day..."

"its amazing how much you can do in 48 hours" - said by prof roughly 48 hours before final presentations.

"its amazing how little I got done in 72 hours" - said by me.



There's a word game at our school, the students agree on a word that everybody will have to use at some point in their presentation.

HITW ll - we used to play the opposite game, before your presentation, tell your friends the secret word, it should be a word that you can't say, but you have to trick the critics into saying it. Lots of fun and keeps everybody interested.

i'm a fan of the "kind of's" and "sort of's" in the archietctural world. once had a prof use "kind of" 165 times in a one hour lecture. yes, i counted.

"fussy"..."dogmatic"...any word in the english language with + a "y" or "ness" or "ish" tacked on at the end to add requisite ambiguity.

argot

which means "slang" in French

asbuckeye, dont forget the "-esque's"

"ism"

"Fucking Olfa cut my finger"

Alka-Seltzer
Prozac
Coke
Bar
Scalpel
"All-nighter"
ephemeral
Space
composition
precedent
Design Report
Revise
Staedtler
Pentel
Uniball
Rotring
Hangover

intervention

(also used in breaking addiction and rescuing folks from cults)

From the top of my head, 'Line.'

And a straight one too, lol.

no way, the IT word in any relevant architecture school for the past year or more has been


NEGOTIATE


can't believe it hasn't been mentioned in the discussion yet

"you need to negotiate the conditions..."
"the way you negotiate between the specific form and the outcome of the propagation of the rule..."
"negotiate negotiate negotiate negotiate"

just came back from final reviews at AA DRL and every single person in the critics panel, except for F. Roche, just went on riding that stupid word, like it meant something... and that's by far not the only school I've heard it at, so many people everywhere got hooked on it...

so sick of that one.

Words help you think. There are tools and weapons.
If you degrade the words, you degrade the work, and the opportunities.

If you degrade the words, you degrade the work,(???)

I don't think the two are necessarily related.

So...if you use cliches to describe the work, does that mean the work is cliched?

Someone should read Wittgenstein.

paradigm

dude ....

Do they teach Wittgenstein in an architecture class? I am only taking lower level classes right now...

But that would be cool...like an upper level class in philosophy as it relates to architectural theory and practice.

modernity
deleuze

how are you gonna build that?
did you script that?
it will be leaking.
are you sure?
why?
if you say so.
it looks so...random
come back next week
"when I was a student....."

and my favourite, when my teacher saw my presentation board:
You are insane!