haptic
holl
libeskind
hadid

juxtapose/juxtaposition
anthropomorphic
parti
pragmatic/pragmatism

fenestration
pedagogy
experiential
phenomenological
space
bullshit
business school

envelop
skin
concept

"talking out the side of your neck"


(PRE)-deFine YOU're MommA

Post Mortem

Concept

Interstitial space

Dialog

Student loans

Cad Monkey

Dance monkey dance!

student loans.....for some reason a great feeling of depression seems to overwhelm me :'(

Christopher Alexander

The Pattern Language

Sustainability

Typology

Spandrel

AIA
FAIA
Fame
LEED
AIA Subcommittees
AIA Subcommittee gold sealed and embossed certificates

Oh, sorry, that's in the professor's coffee lounge.

pop

because i like ______

i wanted

like

basically

green

like

No the one that really bugs is....

"Encouragre"

We encourage you to do this

I encourage you to do that, I highly encourage....

Every time some instructor speaks you hear the word encourage at least 5 - 10 times before they finish speaking....

We sit there and count how many times they say encourage....

You can even start a pool....

1- 10.....


Oh shit I won I was number 6...

6 encourages

But the worst Is that now even some of the students use it when speaking to other students........

BEER

syntax
tectonic
datum
juxtapose/juxtaposition

i am so OVER juxtaposition, it is so 1995.

Liz, what about "privileged?" We had a lot of that crap last year...this level is privileged....

Overused words in the medical profession:

surgical rotation
heart
patient (I'm like sooo sick of this one: 'ask the patient this' 'I'll see the patient now')

skin
envelope
tectonic
syntax
strategies
tactics
group form (misused)
green (undefined)
sustainability (as marketing tactic)
sustainability (as concept for abuse/misuse)
sustainability (as eye candy)
sell out
get MBA
become real estate developer
build pseudo-new urbanist/nostalgic schlock

oh the memories.

privileged.
rigor
"lowest-common denomonator"
tectonic clarity
(pedagological clarity?)

and OMG you are so right re: overuse of the whole "patient" thing in the medical field. I mean, ugh, personal care is so out and capitalist medicine is obvs in.

condition

intentionality
potentiality

horizontality

verticality

myriad, fuckin' myriad

this project sucks i hate this i'm tired no sleep kill for a beer no sex i look like crap i have no money your laser cutter time is up my friends in law school business school med school have fun date drink go to parties have free weekends

aquino- only if you went to berkeley... i mean really? pattern language?

but i also use:
morphological, emergent, affective, experiential, generative, indexical, bifurcate, exfoliate, vermiculate, immure, parse, stratify, quantize, manifold, funicular, topological, parametricity, superficial, interstitial, exigent, graphic, pockets, fluidities, cadences, multiplicities, simulacrum, vagries...

I've been in arch school for two weeks. So far, from the lists above, I've heard:

haptic
anthropomorphic
experiential
Sustainability
condition

Also:
morphology
program

Of course, 'program' is always relevant, but speaking to first-year students with zero architectural experience regarding the program of a project is kind of funny. At least to me. I don't even know what that word means yet!

And 'morphology' of the city. You mean the shape?

Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining. I've already been to design school ;)

cool space
starchitectural
curious
bloated

Uggggg. My list:

Sustainable
Green
LEED

"You have a degree zero understanding of this project."
Phenomenal Transparency
Slippages
Like
Uh
Anthropomorphic
Blob
Zaha Hadid
Daniel Liebeskind
Frank Gehry

Parti
Diagram
transparency
juxtaposed
Experience
Experiential
Tactile
Tectonic
Contemporary Architecture
Architectural
"90% of the built world is not Architecture"
Concept Diagram
Study Model
Haute Couture
Brandspace

"So I think I'm gonna get a mac"
"Fuck this game. This game sucks"
"It don't mattah. None of this shit even mattahs."


A lot of repeats. Most of these annoy the hell out of me. I'm also guilty of using most of them.

keep in mind that any parts of these words may be removed and sutured to other words or word fragments to make new words, free of constraint by preconceived notions of established languages. this is architecture school, baby!

ryan seacrest

oops... that one's NOT commonly used in arch schools, but it annoys the crap out of me.. his mere existence annoys the crap out of me.

'architectonic'
'speaks to' -- wtf?? speaks to what?
'um' as in students who um every other word when presenting a project
'graduate school'
'graduate school application'
'master's degree'
'MArch'
'sustainable design' -- concerning 3 solar panels arbitrarily placed on a flat roof
'i was going for...' -- referring to a particular look or architectural flare
'bamboo'
'prefab'



...oh and frank gehry.

...KOOLHAAS

hahahahahahaha. yeah.

"how can you begin to manipulate the information you've discovered through your process to begin to reveal these moments where you can define a potential language in which you might speak to the idea or system of your logic"

=(
armature
green
modern
contemporary
airy
conceptual
seem (as in "it would seem")
skyscraper
streetscape
pedestrian
feel
competition
massage
novel
=)
Audubon
sprinkles
captive
rift
axis
bullshit

Commonly heard phrases:

"My first step was to make a grid by bringing all of the window openings from the buildings across the street in to the site"

or

"I started by laying out a 10'x10' grid on the site"

How about words you don't hear enough of in studio?

wall
door
window
roof
floor plan
section
elevation
site
occupants
view
program
function
daylight
ventilation

Actually
Really
Read (graphically)
Any word that is taken from another field and molded into an architectural form, primarily used to make a very simple concept and speaker/writer sound sophisticated and complex.
Cull my detractors

oh yeah. i forgot star wars. i like star wars.

as in "the facade can be all nice and neat.. contextual. but out back you can do you some star wars." sm

ether... the mullet building

aye.

i have and will always hate this phrase E S P E C I A L L Y during someone's presentation "...ya know what i mean..."

i used to say "damn it" a lot in school...

actually, i say it at work all the time still...i am just too passionate, i guess!

smooth v. striated
machinic
phylum
morphogenetic
feathering
specificity
incidental
system, failure, system failure
tesselaation
affect, effects
bifurcated
singular
liminal space
post-collage
post-critical
rowe, tafuri, eisenmann ... blah blah
index, indexical, non indexical
exegesis, meta-exigesis

of then there are the selfs:

self simillar
self organizing

then there's

voyeur
exhibitionism
conspicuousness
the gaze

phenomenology
self-referential
placemaking
programatic
color theory
ornamental
lineaments
orthogonal
suspended
replicating
curvilinear
rectilinear
cinematic
alignment
theoritical
elemental
rendering
elements
one-liner
narrative
sectional
notional
floating
layered
opacity
spatial
planar
folded
linear
zones
plane
plexi
shit
like
um
uh
i

if you read this from the bottom up it sounds like a really bad crit.

i love your text shard.

ditto! mmmmmm.....

(word)+ality

'When I first came to the site, I was struck by ...'

emergent

Outside86, did you end up at UTSA?

oh, i forgot any words that are punctuated with parentheses or underscores. for example: para(site), velo(city), un_divided), etc. that stuff really pisses me off.