Usually used by a client to justify some flimsy, tacky, aplique
Curb Appeal -
Usually used to justify brick in the front, siding on the sides, since the only purpose of architecture is to satisfy the desires of someone driving by in their SUV, who happens to glance at the building in the precise second that their gaze is perfectly orthagonal to the front elevation.
It is what it is -
Used by my PM when I point out he's designed the project into a corner, and the building has no hope of redemption.
Any mention of Mastics, Sealants, and Adhesives -
Usually used by Product reps to explain the ease of installing their new system, with copious amounts of the aforementioned substances.
Any others . . .
farwest1
Dec 14, 06 8:08 pm
Here are a couple of new ones:
1. A guy I worked with used to call elements in a plan (a bathroom, for instance) a "nugget" or a "chunk." I thought it was kind of funny when he said this.
2. I had a rep say he would send me a "tickler" once. Initially I was frightened. He meant a teaser email, but it sounded like he meant a sex toy that looked like an octopus.
3. My old boss told me in confidence that one of our clients had "scrambled eggs for brains."
4. A crazy-haired PM I worked for once used to always ask "what's our attitude about this?" Drove me nuts. And yet I found myself saying it too, later, to other people I worked with.
5. A superfamous architect I worked for used to say "digitally supercharged" about anything we created in the computer (also known as "the machine".) I found this same superfamous guy one Friday morning trying to scan one of his watercolors by placing it in the output slot of the office's Epson printer. No joke.
this_guy
Dec 14, 06 11:08 pm
you can tell a crit is gonna be really bad when the presenter starts with:
" i just kinda feel like _________ "
that roughly translates to, my projects may seem to suck, but i think it works. I can't help but feel bad for them at that point.
strlt_typ
Dec 15, 06 5:02 pm
i just heard my boss say "time to re-fuel" referring to lunch...
then he comes in my office chewing loudly while explaining his sketches...he'll pause in the middle of a sentence to scrape the bits of food on the walls of his mouth with his tongue...
ThriftyAcres
Dec 19, 06 1:24 pm
dammson,
that's nasty
Situation: boss walks up behind my desk
Discussion:
the boss - "what's archinect?"
me - "the best damn website for everything architectural and more..."
the boss - "I see...and how is that helping you get your work done..."
me - <cringing>
Chili Davis
Dec 19, 06 1:28 pm
Thrifty, next time, just say "Career Development."
I used to know this website that was all mumbo jumbo about productivity and making the office money and crap like that. I would keep it minimized, and whenever I would hear someone walking up behind me, I would restore that website. Clearly, they already know I'm not busy doing sanitary napkin holder details, but if I'm looking at a web page, might as well be that one.
mdler
Dec 19, 06 1:48 pm
stop fucking around on Archinect and get back to work
Chili,
Thanks for the suggestion...now back to this thread
Phrases or words that make me cringe -
"Sanitary Napkin"
snooker
Dec 20, 06 4:51 pm
Oh....there is one ....which anyone working in New England has heard from his ole italian contractor, in that unique accent: "I have a better idear!"
Gordon Hulley
Dec 20, 06 7:01 pm
'The Meal?'
(No, just the bleedin' burger. If I'd wanted anything else I'D HAVE F****** ASKED FOR IT!!!xxx@:lvkvm)
'Value Engineering'
A British term which is about neither value nor engineering. It means 'What is the cheapest way to get away with it and thus maximise our profit'. Obviously, architects are particularly keen to spend sould-destroying hours and energy maximising someone else's profit.
any kind of acronym that is not universally understood
any kind of phrase invented for a situation, for which a plain English substitute is clearly available, intended to make morons sound clever.
myriam
Dec 20, 06 10:08 pm
ahh, that first one happens to me often, solidred.
perturbanist
Dec 21, 06 1:08 pm
architecture sucks
Peripteral
Dec 21, 06 2:59 pm
"You're letting yourself off easy"
"Do you know what I mean?" (No not really)
"Think in human terms"
"It would be nice if you could use your whole brain instead of half of it, you know create balance"
Ms Beary
Jan 3, 07 10:37 am
"Don't spend any time on this, but I need..."
A typical small project introduction by my old boss. Came to mind after comtemplating what UNmotivated me.
strlt_typ
Jan 3, 07 12:46 pm
"cutting edge avant garde firms"
4arch
Jan 3, 07 1:28 pm
corporate blackballing
Ms Beary
Jan 3, 07 2:09 pm
"I don't think we'll worry about that right now."
"I'll only do that if so and so tells me to do it."
Both said to me this morning.
strlt_typ
Jan 9, 07 6:08 pm
"your design juices are still flowing"
BOTS
Jan 9, 07 6:51 pm
It's 1984 - "have you signed up for the e-mail terror alert service"
snooker
Jan 9, 07 7:17 pm
I said, "Trojan" and I do not mean rubber, power down your computer......NOW!"
Simone03
Jan 10, 07 2:13 pm
overtime and 18 hours of sleep for the week apparentally means...
"its not that you didnt have time, its that you didnt *make* time"
yea. thanks.
myriam
Jan 10, 07 2:25 pm
"Don't spend any time on this, but I need..."
oh, how i hate that one.
archiphreak
Jan 10, 07 4:16 pm
"that should only take 5 minutes"
"structural coordination"
"that's almost what it wants to be" combined with first above.
i hope i never talk like this, though i know inevitably i will. it's the curse of archi-babble.
broccolijet
Jan 10, 07 4:28 pm
someone's probably already mentioned this one, but i can't be bothered to read almost 500 posts at the moment...
a female friend of mine described being ogled by less-than-discrete guys as being "eye-raped"
i am nowhere near easily offended, but that one made even me feel a little squirmy.
el jeffe
Jan 10, 07 4:42 pm
blank
o-sphere.
i-blank
kablakistan
Jan 11, 07 9:04 am
"let's touch bases"
are we playing baseball?
sounds too much like knock boots
and I think they mean check-in or "touch base"
Although I love saying "back at the ranch..."
ThriftyAcres
Jan 11, 07 9:41 am
Boss - "well you can't go to Europe then because we are really really really busy that time of the year...and... I'll be out of the office."
Me- "oh, where will you be"
Boss- "Europe"
(with a little convincing and a few adjustments, it actually worked out alright)
strlt_typ
Feb 19, 07 10:36 am
form finding
Becker
Feb 19, 07 6:13 pm
my boss always says "jazz it up a bit"
snooker
Feb 19, 07 6:32 pm
Its Been Fun!
mfrech
Feb 19, 07 7:11 pm
"make it more Cape-Coddy!"
mauOneâ„¢
Feb 19, 07 7:13 pm
ok i've finished the plans...."now please make it look nice" (make the elevations) > senior partner
JohnProlly
Feb 19, 07 7:35 pm
"hipster"
"design - coming from the all inclusive art kid"
"faux"
"feng-shui"
greenlander1
Feb 21, 07 2:50 pm
"ohhh how was your weekend?"
strlt_typ
Feb 21, 07 3:48 pm
clean lines
bringing the outside in
blurring the boundary between inside and outside
inside becomes outside
inside is outside
4arch
Feb 21, 07 4:09 pm
let's put some lipstick on this pig
snooker
Feb 21, 07 4:33 pm
"What is the name of that Engineering Firm you work for?"
My favorite Civil Engineering Uncle
lovebird
Feb 21, 07 5:17 pm
referring to anything as a "polished turd"
chupacabra
Feb 21, 07 5:23 pm
being referred to as "chief" or "guy"
"whadya think chief?"
"how bout it guy?"
J3
Feb 21, 07 6:26 pm
"a la"
snooker
Feb 21, 07 6:52 pm
Contractor Project Site Super....talking to Project Manager back in office: "The Kids from the Architecture Firm will be taking care of that."
shaner
Feb 21, 07 6:56 pm
can we fit the amherstburg building on the cambridge, welland, london, and grimbsy sites?
mfrech
Feb 21, 07 7:35 pm
i know this isn't a catch phrase but the dialogues here have been classic...
job captain : "we are going to use E.I.F.S. board up near the parapet."
me : "what's E.I.F.S. board?"
job captain : "i dunno."
Israel Kandarian
Feb 21, 07 9:05 pm
"i'm late"
whistler
Feb 22, 07 7:27 pm
"this is a special client and he wants a really nice house, but I don't want you to work on it during business hours??????". I guess you want it done during my free time.... after 5:00pm and on weekends. As said to me by a former starchitect boss, I left the next week.
Erin Williams
Feb 22, 07 7:28 pm
"Can someone help me out with my Cooper Union home test?"
job job
Feb 22, 07 7:37 pm
"make me"
"chocolatebabies"
sometimes I like to switch out all adjectives with the word 'goat' or 'seacow'
I try responding to other architects with missy elliot lyrics
job job
Feb 22, 07 7:57 pm
easy like sunday morning - if you don't like a thread, just move along and shake it off.
personally I dislike the poster for 2010 (blowtorching the world??) but you don't see me in there going coocoo for cocoapuffs.
strlt_typ
Apr 3, 07 2:56 am
"i'm not happy and the clients are not happy"
fuck you!!!
betamax
Apr 3, 07 9:23 am
"ok, now lets crap this puppy up." actually said in order to PRE-value engineer something...
"why don't you sketch out a couple little ideas and i'll do the same" meaning...you go doodle for a little while while i figure out what you're actually going to draw in your computer.
"I know AutoCAD version 1.0"-laughingly uttered while sketching something in midair...referring to the fact that this person knows nothing about computers and or the software which this whole industry works on.
"yyyyeaaaaahhhh....uhhhhhhh...i...uh think we'll go in a little different direction...." - fine, whatever.
Bang for your Buck -
Usually used by a client to justify some flimsy, tacky, aplique
Curb Appeal -
Usually used to justify brick in the front, siding on the sides, since the only purpose of architecture is to satisfy the desires of someone driving by in their SUV, who happens to glance at the building in the precise second that their gaze is perfectly orthagonal to the front elevation.
It is what it is -
Used by my PM when I point out he's designed the project into a corner, and the building has no hope of redemption.
Any mention of Mastics, Sealants, and Adhesives -
Usually used by Product reps to explain the ease of installing their new system, with copious amounts of the aforementioned substances.
Any others . . .
Here are a couple of new ones:
1. A guy I worked with used to call elements in a plan (a bathroom, for instance) a "nugget" or a "chunk." I thought it was kind of funny when he said this.
2. I had a rep say he would send me a "tickler" once. Initially I was frightened. He meant a teaser email, but it sounded like he meant a sex toy that looked like an octopus.
3. My old boss told me in confidence that one of our clients had "scrambled eggs for brains."
4. A crazy-haired PM I worked for once used to always ask "what's our attitude about this?" Drove me nuts. And yet I found myself saying it too, later, to other people I worked with.
5. A superfamous architect I worked for used to say "digitally supercharged" about anything we created in the computer (also known as "the machine".) I found this same superfamous guy one Friday morning trying to scan one of his watercolors by placing it in the output slot of the office's Epson printer. No joke.
you can tell a crit is gonna be really bad when the presenter starts with:
" i just kinda feel like _________ "
that roughly translates to, my projects may seem to suck, but i think it works. I can't help but feel bad for them at that point.
i just heard my boss say "time to re-fuel" referring to lunch...
then he comes in my office chewing loudly while explaining his sketches...he'll pause in the middle of a sentence to scrape the bits of food on the walls of his mouth with his tongue...
dammson,
that's nasty
Situation: boss walks up behind my desk
Discussion:
the boss - "what's archinect?"
me - "the best damn website for everything architectural and more..."
the boss - "I see...and how is that helping you get your work done..."
me - <cringing>
Thrifty, next time, just say "Career Development."
I used to know this website that was all mumbo jumbo about productivity and making the office money and crap like that. I would keep it minimized, and whenever I would hear someone walking up behind me, I would restore that website. Clearly, they already know I'm not busy doing sanitary napkin holder details, but if I'm looking at a web page, might as well be that one.
stop fucking around on Archinect and get back to work
Spy's everywhere
http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/balance/Shopping_Online_During_Work__20061213-101054.html?subtopic=Other+Work%2FLife+Topics
Chili,
Thanks for the suggestion...now back to this thread
Phrases or words that make me cringe -
"Sanitary Napkin"
Oh....there is one ....which anyone working in New England has heard from his ole italian contractor, in that unique accent: "I have a better idear!"
'The Meal?'
(No, just the bleedin' burger. If I'd wanted anything else I'D HAVE F****** ASKED FOR IT!!!xxx@:lvkvm)
'Value Engineering'
A British term which is about neither value nor engineering. It means 'What is the cheapest way to get away with it and thus maximise our profit'. Obviously, architects are particularly keen to spend sould-destroying hours and energy maximising someone else's profit.
any kind of acronym that is not universally understood
any kind of phrase invented for a situation, for which a plain English substitute is clearly available, intended to make morons sound clever.
ahh, that first one happens to me often, solidred.
architecture sucks
"You're letting yourself off easy"
"Do you know what I mean?" (No not really)
"Think in human terms"
"It would be nice if you could use your whole brain instead of half of it, you know create balance"
"Don't spend any time on this, but I need..."
A typical small project introduction by my old boss. Came to mind after comtemplating what UNmotivated me.
"cutting edge avant garde firms"
corporate blackballing
"I don't think we'll worry about that right now."
"I'll only do that if so and so tells me to do it."
Both said to me this morning.
"your design juices are still flowing"
It's 1984 - "have you signed up for the e-mail terror alert service"
I said, "Trojan" and I do not mean rubber, power down your computer......NOW!"
overtime and 18 hours of sleep for the week apparentally means...
"its not that you didnt have time, its that you didnt *make* time"
yea. thanks.
oh, how i hate that one.
"that should only take 5 minutes"
"structural coordination"
"that's almost what it wants to be" combined with first above.
i hope i never talk like this, though i know inevitably i will. it's the curse of archi-babble.
someone's probably already mentioned this one, but i can't be bothered to read almost 500 posts at the moment...
a female friend of mine described being ogled by less-than-discrete guys as being "eye-raped"
i am nowhere near easily offended, but that one made even me feel a little squirmy.
o-sphere.
i-blank
"let's touch bases"
are we playing baseball?
sounds too much like knock boots
and I think they mean check-in or "touch base"
Although I love saying "back at the ranch..."
Boss - "well you can't go to Europe then because we are really really really busy that time of the year...and... I'll be out of the office."
Me- "oh, where will you be"
Boss- "Europe"
(with a little convincing and a few adjustments, it actually worked out alright)
form finding
my boss always says "jazz it up a bit"
Its Been Fun!
"make it more Cape-Coddy!"
ok i've finished the plans...."now please make it look nice" (make the elevations) > senior partner
"hipster"
"design - coming from the all inclusive art kid"
"faux"
"feng-shui"
"ohhh how was your weekend?"
clean lines
bringing the outside in
blurring the boundary between inside and outside
inside becomes outside
inside is outside
let's put some lipstick on this pig
"What is the name of that Engineering Firm you work for?"
My favorite Civil Engineering Uncle
referring to anything as a "polished turd"
being referred to as "chief" or "guy"
"whadya think chief?"
"how bout it guy?"
"a la"
Contractor Project Site Super....talking to Project Manager back in office: "The Kids from the Architecture Firm will be taking care of that."
can we fit the amherstburg building on the cambridge, welland, london, and grimbsy sites?
i know this isn't a catch phrase but the dialogues here have been classic...
job captain : "we are going to use E.I.F.S. board up near the parapet."
me : "what's E.I.F.S. board?"
job captain : "i dunno."
"i'm late"
"this is a special client and he wants a really nice house, but I don't want you to work on it during business hours??????". I guess you want it done during my free time.... after 5:00pm and on weekends. As said to me by a former starchitect boss, I left the next week.
"Can someone help me out with my Cooper Union home test?"
"make me"
"chocolatebabies"
sometimes I like to switch out all adjectives with the word 'goat' or 'seacow'
I try responding to other architects with missy elliot lyrics
easy like sunday morning - if you don't like a thread, just move along and shake it off.
personally I dislike the poster for 2010 (blowtorching the world??) but you don't see me in there going coocoo for cocoapuffs.
"i'm not happy and the clients are not happy"
fuck you!!!
"ok, now lets crap this puppy up." actually said in order to PRE-value engineer something...
"why don't you sketch out a couple little ideas and i'll do the same" meaning...you go doodle for a little while while i figure out what you're actually going to draw in your computer.
"I know AutoCAD version 1.0"-laughingly uttered while sketching something in midair...referring to the fact that this person knows nothing about computers and or the software which this whole industry works on.
"yyyyeaaaaahhhh....uhhhhhhh...i...uh think we'll go in a little different direction...." - fine, whatever.