marketecturen. 1. The architecture of spec houses. 2. A style of architecture concerned solely with maximizing the sale price of speculatively developed real estate. 3. A house with the maximum number of bedrooms with en-suite baths, a swimming pool, show kitchen, security system, faux classical detailing, etc., applied in a manner to give the appearance of scale and opulence at the least possible expense. See featuritis.
The Hamptons Dictionary by Miles Jaffe
Apr 19, 18 1:38 pm ·
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In other words, what everybody but the architect himself wants.
HOUSE, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus and microbe. The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce
>>>intriguing and provocative work, Miles >>>what architecture needs now, it seems, more than the rhetoric of the mega-projects, is an unconventional thinking...
>>>The Devil's Dictionary - Architect
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
ARCHITECT, n. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft
of your money.
marketecture n. 1. The architecture of spec houses. 2. A style of architecture concerned solely with maximizing the sale price of speculatively developed real estate. 3. A house with the maximum number of bedrooms with en-suite baths, a swimming pool, show kitchen, security system, faux classical detailing, etc., applied in a manner to give the appearance of scale and opulence at the least possible expense. See featuritis.
The Hamptons Dictionary by Miles Jaffe
In other words, what everybody but the architect himself wants.
Miles!
HOUSE, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus and microbe. The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce
>>>architect >>>devil
This was the model for my book. Bierce was brilliant.
>>>intriguing and provocative work, Miles >>>what architecture needs now, it seems, more than the rhetoric of the mega-projects, is an unconventional thinking...
https://www.amazon.com/Hampton...
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