talk like an architect

In my experience, I have found architects to mostly be highly articulate people. However, there are words and phrases that seem to pop up again and again in architecture discourse (or monologue) that seem to have become part of the collective lexicon of architects. For a discipline based on creativity and diversity, such a universal verbal arsenal seems a tad stale. On the flip side, architects also seem justified to make up their own words. Seems fitting given the architect's nature to create original objects/spaces/thoughts out of previously established or fabricated materials/units/concepts. Regardless, if you want to start sounding like an architect, start by using these words to talk about things that not everyone will agree with.

Agglomeration

Anathema

Apotheosis

A priori

Array

Condition

Datum

Dialectic

Dichotomy

Disjunct

Distopia

Fabric

Form

Genius Loci

Heterotopia

Override

Polemic

Proliferation

Relentless

Sensual

Sexy

Simulacrum

System

Texture

Typology

Ubiquitous

Urban - proposition, context, framework...

Utopia

Wack up

Zeitgeist

-opolis