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Words that Architects use: Architect Bingo Card #3

December 2, 2010 by Bob Borson 5 Comments

So a few weeks ago I wrote a post on how to speak like an architect with the premise that if you want to be an architect, you have to speak in a certain way or no one will take you very seriously.

Because I am just the sort of guy to try to help others out, I came up with a list of words that old seasoned architects have most likely mastered but younger architects, interns, students, and those who are working with architects should try to learn. I am back here today to present you with round 3 of Architect Bingo© – another group of 25 words for you to learn and incorporate into your casual daily conversations

Here is the third round of words for you to memorize:


I have expanded my list of architect-y words that you need to master. Coming out later this week are the rest of the series – cards 4 and 5 – so in the end there will be a total of 5 cards and 125 words. To be quite frank, the last card of 25 words is really going to be a drinking game for more advanced players.

At any rate, once you have managed to work all these words into your daily conversations without effort, you’ll be on your way to becoming a bona-fide architect. Blah, blah blah – yes, this is a riff on the story ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes” and architects have been making use of this technique for decades. I just can’t bring myself to write that paragraph for the 3rd time. Go back and read the posts with Architect Bingo Cards 1 or 2 if you just can’t get enough. (but thanks … you’re awesome! *karate-chop roundhouse high five*)

Here is the third round of words for you to memorize:


Plane: a surface generated by a straight line moving at a constant velocity with respect to a fixed point, such that a straight line joining any two of its points lies wholly in the surface

Carbon Footprint: the amount of greenhouse and specifically carbon dioxide emitted by something (as a person’s activities or a product’s manufacture and transport) during a given period

Gesture: a movement (usually of the body or limbs) that expresses or emphasizes an idea, sentiment, or attitude

Proportion: a movement usually of the body or limbs that expresses or emphasizes an idea, sentiment, or attitude

Intention: a determination to act in a certain way

Depth: the degree of intensity <depth of a color>

Render: to reproduce or represent by artistic or verbal means

Geothermal: of, relating to, or utilizing the heat of the earth’s interior; also : produced or permeated by such heat

Formal: relating to or involving the outward form, structure, relationships, or arrangement of elements rather than content

Envelop: to enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering

Re-Purpose: to give a new purpose or use to

Day–Lighting: illumination of indoor spaces by natural light

Shape: form, create; especially : to give a particular form or shape to

Monolithic: constituting a massive undifferentiated and often rigid whole

Datum: something used as a basis for calculating or measuring

Function: the action for which a person or thing is specially fitted or used or for which a thing exists

Preliminary: something that precedes or is introductory or preparatory

Salient: standing out conspicuously; especially : of notable significance

Element: a constituent part: as a distinct group within a larger group or community

Miesian: a formal gesture incorporating the maxims of Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Sustainable: of, relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged

Complexity: a whole made up of complicated or interrelated parts

Spatial: of or relating to facility in perceiving relations (as of objects) in space

Rhetoric: the study of writing or speaking as a means of communication or persuasion

Axis: a straight line about which a body or a geometric figure rotates or may be supposed to rotate


*UPDATE*

All the cards are finished – You can find them by following the links below

Card #1

Card #2

Card #4

Card #5

Cheers!

Bob-AIA scale figure

ps – on the advice of my crack legal team Architect Bingo©® (US Patent Pending)

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