I animated a fake theme song for my ridiculous bunny concept! Fuwa Fuwa Foof, a show about a sweet little bunny who used to be a vicious gang leader. Her old accomplices Giri Giri and Kiri Kiri constantly try to lure her back to a life of debauchery while Foof struggles to resist the good ol’ days of punching in some teeth. This is just for fun, it’s not a real show haha! Song is ‘Chu Chu Lovely’ by Maximum the Hormone

Already addictive! Seriously!

“You want people who flip burgers to make more money than soldiers who fight for our freedom? What’s wrong with you?”

Really? I can do that too.

You want CEOs to make more money than soldiers who fight for our freedom? What’s wrong with you?

You want the cowards who create the wars to make more money than the soldiers themselves? What’s wrong with you?

You’re conveniently ignoring the homeless veterans who need a way to escape poverty? What’s wrong with you?

Everyone criticizes the poor for wanting to live, but no one criticizes the rich for wanting everything.

First they came for the scientists…

And the National Parks Services said, “lol, no” and went rogue and we were all like, “I was not expecting the park rangers to lead the resistance, none of the dystopian novels I read prepared me for this but cool.”

And NASA was all, “Wait for me!”

Teen Vogue said, “I’ve got a pen!” 

150 Weird Words That Only Architects Use by Rory Stott

For most students of architecture, the first few years of learning involve a demanding crash course in architectural jargon. From learning terms as obscure as “gestalt” to redefining your understanding of ideas as simple as “space,” learning the architectural lexicon is one of the most mind-bending processes involved in becoming a designer.

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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
  • Poché
  • Post-industrial
  • Diagrammatic
  • Vernacular
  • Modular
  • Deconstruction
  • Typology
  • Parametric
  • Program
  • Skin
  • Building envelope
  • Vault
  • Arcade
  • Fenestration
  • Truncated
  • Parti
  • Flâneur
  • 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
  • Blasé
  • 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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Let’s give credit where credit is due: Women’s March organizers Tamika Mallory, Bob Bland, Carmen Perez, and Linda Sarsour 

i find the lack of notes disturbing.

don’t ever let the fact that women of color had a huge hand in organizing the biggest worldwide protest in global history be erased