ARCHITECTURE TERMS(and what they really mean)

1. Sense of Entry: The front door is big and far away.
2. Human Scale: less than 400 feet tall.
3. Skewed Grid: The design looked too boring with a regular grid.
4. Pedestrian-Oriented: Doesn’t have enough parking.
5. Contextual: Is surrounded by a lot of other buildings the architect couldn’t tear down.
6. Theoretical: Nobody in their right mind would ever consider building the crazy thing.
7. Signature Building: You can’t afford it.
8. Less Is More: The designer ran out of ideas.
9. Classically Proportioned: Traced out of a book of Greek architecture.
10. Postmodern: Traced out of a book of Roman architecture.
11. International Style: No country will take responsibility for it.
12. Deconstructivist: The backhoe ran into it during construction ­- and they liked it.
13. Seismically Designed High Rise: In an earthquake, the structure will not collapse, but will drop all of its glass and stone panels into the street turning pedestrians into a stew-like mush of pureed flesh.
14. Jury: Firing squad.
15. Design Review Board: Failed architecture majors.
16. Architecture Student: Egotistical masochist with no money