archibabble

facadomy

"you've really got to reduce it to the maximum"

perspectivally

synecdochical

concretization, phenomenology, "thingness of the thing"

Refering to buildings as animate beings...
"The building wants to be taller."
"The window wants to repeat itself."


"starter castle"


cross-axial rotation


blobitecture

My favorite word from a lecture: tentacular

My dad's favorite word from a review is "materiality," which he always uses when referring to anything work-related of mine:

"Did you discuss the materiality?"

Is that not a real word?

DCA: Don't forget the ever popular "What do you want, brick?"

haecciety
or, essentially, 'this-ness'.

"invaginated surface"

"ephemeral"

I had a hymen in my buildign once....

"hapticity" and "potentiality"

didn't Kahn saying something like "if you ask a brick what it wants to be, I tell you it would say 'an arch.'"

at philips exeter, when kahn asked a brick what it wanted to be and it said 'veneer'.

I love the word 'haptic'.


But, I twitch when I hear the word "becomes" used in this context:

"So the column becomes a gate..."

"So the roof becomes an invitation..."

"So the drawing tube becomes a weapon..."

"looks like poop comming out of the end of that"

"Up in through here" ::points with index finger in a circulating motion::

Terraism

horizontality

systematicity

'necter

"mitigate"

coolth

I'm with lb - "becomes" is the worst, and it's a favorite of the class dunces (or maybe just exceptionally sleep deprived) trying to sound architecturally clever.

oh, and I once had a prof tell me I was being reductivist.

blobilogical

coincident - unfortunately, it is a real word. many of the words mentioned are real.

sesquipedalian-

characterized by the use of long words

long and ponderous

having many syllables.

throw that back at the archibabble

corpuscular fluxscapes

POST-CRITICAL

Screed-
Long, pointless diatribe OR
Tool used for leveling concrete

Both very architectural.

Pedagogical

"Problemmatic," "Bracket" and "Where are the flies?"

Soid - Not a solid, and not a Void

Formwhore-
did you go to SCI-Arc by any chance? Cause my studio mates used to throw around that term all the time. (What else is there at SCI-Arc these days but form whoring?

HERMENEUTIC

is 'densification' a word? if not, it's my nominee. also, blobitecture - once used by a friend of mine to describe this really fat lady.

hey here's another one - 'rem-ish' - to describe an OMA-looking design.

virtualisation
extrudisation
architectural masturbation - refering to Libeskind

interstitial

my all time favorite;

"um"

interpolate


'corpuscular fluxscapes'

haha

systematicity

"a moment of penetration" in reference to a window

architectural diarrhea

was all the rage for awhile.

A term favored particularly by post-colonial critics, and which refers to the thresholds, boundaries and borderlines of binary constructions (black/white, masculine/feminine, Englishness/Irishness). These oppositions are often false, producing blurring and gaps which might be exploited in order to deconstruct these oppositions.

I hear the word 'crux' being sprinkled into archispeek more often than I can stand.....

'post-rationalization'

and this by a well known proponent of data driven design...

perspectoidal/ly; a favorite of one of my old college lecturers

post-neorealcrapismist