Architecture Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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vinyl village n. There are so many barriers to producing good design solutions that the path of least resistance has led us to vinyl villages of franchised architecture surrounded by seas of asphalt. [English Architecture] [full cite] (Mar. 30, 2005)

vision strip n. Indeed, during the 1970s, many districts, including San Diego Unified, began to construct new schools with no windows. Educators argued that windows prevented students from concentrating; architects of these schools created “vision strips,” as they called them, thin slots at the tops of the walls that allowed some light to come into the room, but nothing else. [English Architecture] [full cite] (Feb. 7, 2006)

wen n. Walking out into a small room attached to the house called the “wen,” a fancy-sounding word that literally means “harmless cyst,” she said the room, now an exercise room, was once a Japanese tea room . [English Architecture] [full cite] (Aug. 7, 2005)

workforce housing n. Workforce housing as a term seems to have taken the place of “affordable housing.” Affordable housing once was the new kid on the block, replacing the wildly unpopular “low-income housing. [English Architecture Employment] [full cite] (Feb. 17, 2006)

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