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From the Ted Talk by Daniel Libeskind: 17 words of architectural inspiration

Unscramble the Blue Letters


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Open Cloze


Because architecture is also the asking of _________. It's not only the giving of _______. It's also, just like life, the asking of questions. Therefore it is important that it be real. You know we can ________ almost anything. But the one thing that can be ever simulated is the human _____, the human soul. And architecture is so closely ___________ with it because we are born somewhere and we die somewhere. So the reality of architecture is visceral. It's not intellectual. It's not something that comes to us from books and theories. It's the real that we touch — the door, the window, the _________, the bed — such _______ objects. And yet, I try, in every building, to take that virtual _____, which is so enigmatic and so rich, and create something in the real world. Create a space for an office, a space of sustainability that really works between that virtuality and yet can be realized as something real.

Solution


  1. threshold
  2. heart
  3. questions
  4. prosaic
  5. world
  6. intertwined
  7. answers
  8. simulate

Original Text


Because architecture is also the asking of questions. It's not only the giving of answers. It's also, just like life, the asking of questions. Therefore it is important that it be real. You know we can simulate almost anything. But the one thing that can be ever simulated is the human heart, the human soul. And architecture is so closely intertwined with it because we are born somewhere and we die somewhere. So the reality of architecture is visceral. It's not intellectual. It's not something that comes to us from books and theories. It's the real that we touch — the door, the window, the threshold, the bed — such prosaic objects. And yet, I try, in every building, to take that virtual world, which is so enigmatic and so rich, and create something in the real world. Create a space for an office, a space of sustainability that really works between that virtuality and yet can be realized as something real.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. answers
  2. architecture
  3. bed
  4. books
  5. born
  6. building
  7. closely
  8. create
  9. die
  10. door
  11. enigmatic
  12. giving
  13. heart
  14. human
  15. important
  16. intellectual
  17. intertwined
  18. life
  19. objects
  20. office
  21. prosaic
  22. questions
  23. real
  24. reality
  25. realized
  26. rich
  27. simulate
  28. simulated
  29. soul
  30. space
  31. sustainability
  32. theories
  33. threshold
  34. touch
  35. virtual
  36. virtuality
  37. visceral
  38. window
  39. works
  40. world