"oh, and just so you know..."

and

"LIP SERVICE"!

X VS. X....

"It is what it is......."

"At the end of the day...."

And any "Compliment sandwiches...."

the phrase, "in your minds eye" ...makes me want to punch babies in the face!

When people start sentences (especially in class and group meetings) with "I just wanted to say..." Listen hard, and 90% of people in a raise-my-hand-and-talk environment start off that way.

Of course you wanted to say it. Otherwise you wouldn't have put your hand up. And frequently, that isn't "just" what you wanted to say.

take this elevation and "FOOF" it - arghhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"... to make a long story short..."

by which time it's inevitably way, way too late

"Right?" said enthusiastically in agreement with a statement:

Ex: "It's hot out today."

"Riiiight?"

"If you can't convince, confuse!"

- thats a nice piece of palestinian music.

- i find that statement anti semitic. israel has a right to exist...!

"So what kind of architecture do you want to get into? Residential or commercial?"

Uttered by almost anyone you tell your an architect to.

'Critical'
'Experimental'
'Conceptual'
'Rigorous'

"reads as"

People who overuse the word 'space'. As in, "Oh, this used to be a third bedroom but now its a chill-out space". It's the overuse of the term 'space' in general.

Back before I found architecture, I ran into an aquaintance from school who was studying architecture. I was asking about it, and I mentioned something about rooms in a house, to wit she smugly replied "Oh, we dont call them rooms, we call them spaces"...

Annoyed me.

Frankly, even the word architecture grates on me sometimes...

Space is a dubious term anyway - everyone knows it doesnt exist...

I'm a little late to this thread, but did anyone mention the word "contemporary"?

A relative recently me she prefers "soft contemporary" architecture more than "hard contemporary" architecture. This person also turns up her nose when something is "too contemporary."

Also tired of:

-"raw" and "industrial"

-"brown-bagging it" on the way to "lunch and learns"

-"check-in" or "doing a check-in"

-"circle back" ie let's circle back in an hour

-"push back" ie I'm gonna put this in the report, and we'll ask the engineers to push back on this

words that have been overused:

urban fabric
contextual environment
creating space
subsequent
experiential
sequential
phallic
urban strata
gentrified
schematic

more to come...

words that have been overused:

urban fabric
contextual environment
creating space
subsequent
experiential
sequential
phallic
urban strata
gentrified
schematic

more to come...

words that have been overused:

urban fabric
contextual environment
creating space
subsequent
experiential quality
sequential
phallic
urban strata
gentrified
schematic
cognizant

more to come...

---"..but I only felt you as a friend "


AT WORK-->

---"....you'r right in principle but... "


----"Thats a nice Idea but....."


---"what do you mean, the plotter isnt working..It was fine yesterday".

and
The most irritating one

"Have you taken the prints " ?

if we can't use space anymore, what will we do with this huge spacebar on the keyboard?

help. i'm under the box, and can't get up!

hahaha so many phrases here im going to plot to put them here in the office where they can read them...hahahaha

for example this one is gold: "If you can't convince, confuse!" hahahaha

I am sure this has been posted previously, but I just heard it again this morning:

"We've decided to just do the design work ourselves"

To which I can only respond with a sarcastic cliche: good luck with that.

(This particular potential client's "sketch" for me ignored the existence of all the interior columns in the space. Yeah, good luck with that.)

one that really really pisses me off, and used all the time in my olf
arch school, when someone explains there scheme and say..

"and my concept --- its an object in the landscape"

oh pleeeeze!

I am grossed out by the phrase, "Flesh it out." It makes me think of a naked fat guy writhing on whatever it is..... Yech!

emerson - you've got some imagination there.

"...in some shape, form or fashion..."

or its close relative

"...in every shape, form and fashion..."



colloquialisms.

"The idea is to "Blur" the boundaries between interior and the
Exterior".

I say......"Blur This"! - Drunkmuse 12/20/04 16:16


"I wanted to bring the outside in" when talking about a large window.

"in a sense"

AP- what year did you graduate? (if you don't mind me asking)

ohh one more: "if you don't mind me asking"

damn

This has been mentiond many times on many threads, but I got it again yesterday!!!

"What does this want to be?"

WTF? It's cardboard. It wanted to be a giftbox but we ruined that now, didn't we?

"help me! which architecture school should i go to?"

Tell them to be an engineer.

I'm out of pocket
(just say you wont be available)
It is 3 fold

Do you have anything for me to do?

"The roofs reflect the forms of the mountains beyond."

Sadly, I've seen this in student projects and in the professional world. OK, so you've got a pitched roof and there's a hill in the background. Big woop.

• Actionable items
• Deliverables

Any time I hear "Value Engineering" I cringe. I know it's a polite way of saying "This is too expensive, make it cheaper and therefore hideous."

Also, when I hear "Keep up the good work," I usually run for Monster.com and update the resume.

perhaps, you can say "no", but your boss was asking that little green guy who hides under your boss's collar.
http://www.offthemarkcartoons.com/search-results/key/irish/

alrighty then...yes people still use it...

"charette" has been tossed around too loosely in some of the circles that i spend time with, i.e., mba's

and lately, i'm spooked everytime i hear "design guidelines"...especially from local city council members...yikes!

"analog" referring to those who use pen or pencil to create presentation drawings

"quintessential"

So you make blueprints?…

Or

I need a set of blueprints…

Or

Why are the drawings not blue?

As an Architect-Planner I will say that....

(they say this a lot in India)

Inter-Disciplinary/Multi-disciplinary

"end-of-year" or even better, "fiscal"

blob, blobitecture, blobitect

...in order of bad to worst

<an intelligent phrase> followed by "...or whatever..."

"EMERGE"....or any variety of such a word in the context of architecture.

"sexy"

That door isn't sexy enough.

"In and of itself..."

I had a professor who said this after every other sentence. During one lecture, I once counted over 100 in and of itselves.

its a good first pass. maybe take another pass, pass and a half at it. it looks good though, great start.