perhaps the best argument for simple language was made by Greg Hudspeth, a builder who

clearly isn't impressed by architects' intellectual posturing:

As a builder who has been in the industry for over 20 years, I understand what I'm doing and
consider myself intelligent enough to grasp relatively complex concepts in construction.
However, I have a running list of the ridiculous words and phrases that the architects we work
with are using. I spend a portion of each day stripping away the fluff and overly complicated
explanations and descriptions for simple ideas. It is the biggest waste of time and ego. Sell that
stuff to the client but give me the design and plans in the most direct and correct manner. I can
work faster and make fewer changes. - Greg Hudspeth via Facebook

150 Weird Words That Only Architects Use

Bearing in mind the above comments, it's important to remember that this isn't a list of words
you should immediately stop using; simply be aware of who you're talking to, and be sure that if
you do use any of these words they are necessary and appropriate in the context you use them.

This list is by no means exhaustive; with over 750 comments across our original article and
three Facebook posts, we had to cap it somewhere! Included here are the words that were
mentioned most often and which we had encountered ourselves. So without further ado, and in
no particular order, here is our readers' list of 150 weird words that only architects use:

Architecture-specific jargon:

Pastiche

Sustainability

Ergonomy

Genius loci

Facade

Charette

Regionalism

Threshold

Massing

Enfilade
 Materiality

Poch

Post-industrial

Diagrammatic

Vernacular

Modular

Deconstruction

Typology

Parametric

Program

Skin

Building envelope

Vault

Arcade

Fenestration

Truncated

Parti

Flneur

Phenomenology

Brutalism

Cantilever

Curvilinear
 Rectilinear

Miesian

Corbusian

Permaculture

Blobitecture

Exurbia

Walkability

Pilotis

Verticality

Rebate

Mullion

Muntin

Gentrification

Stylobate

Simple words given new meaning by architects:

Concept

Space

Fabric (urban or building)

Metaphor

Legibility (of something other than writing)

Dimension (meaning a characteristic of something)

Moment
 Celebrate

Negotiate

Dynamic

Language

Context

Gesture

Proud (the countertop is proud of the cabinet)

Taxonomy

Hierarchy

Scale

Section

Formal

Nodes

Pods

Grain

Extrapolate

Device

Elevation

Obscure words that architects overuse (or misuse):

Iconic

Organic

Dichotomy
 Eclectic

Kitsch

Sequence

Stasis

Interstitial / Interstice

Iteration

Juxtapose/Juxtaposition

Stereotomic

Tectonics (and architectonics)

Liminal

Articulate

Ephemeral

Domesticity

Anthropogenic

Regenerate

Hybrid

Generative

Ambiguity

Catalyst

Penetrate

Appropriate

Inspiration
 Contemporary

Amalgamation

Performative

Hegemony

Curate

Bifurcate

Superimpose

Confluences

Gestalt

Zeitgeist

Banal

Blas

Motifs

Procession

Homogenous

Palimpsest

Paradigm

Dissonance

Adjacencies

Parallax

Assemblage

Aesthetic
 Monolithic

Uniformity

Morphology

Duality

Nuance

Transient

Redundancy

Robust

Bespoke

Holistic (sometimes even wholistic)

Simultaneity

Esoteric

Concretization

Schism

Unusual terms or phrases that architects love:

Play with (light, space, materials)

Human scale

Create/provide a gesture

How the ____ is received by the ____

Spatial composition

Map out

Explores the notion

 Programmatic adjacencies

Activate the space

Public Realm

Outdoor room

Strange concepts within architecture:

Solid/Void

Interiority/Exteriority

Push/Pull

Bottom up/Top down

Transparency/Opacity

Served and Service

Negative/Positive space

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