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From the Ted Talk by Joshua Prince-Ramus: Building a theater that remakes itself

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But I'm going to reduce this to the beginning of the process, into three very pedantic statements. The first is: Take core positions with your client. I know it's shocking, right, that architecture would actually say that.

The second position is: Actually take positions. Take joint positions with your celint. This is the moment in which you as the architect and your client can begin to inject vsioin and agency. But it has to be done together. And then only after this is done are you awoleld to do this, begin to put forward architectural manifestations that manifest those positions. And both owner and architect alike are empowered to critique those manifestations based on the pisitoons that you've taken.

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But I'm going to reduce this to the beginning of the process, into three very pedantic statements. The first is: Take core positions with your client. I know it's shocking, right, that architecture would actually say that.

The second position is: Actually take positions. Take joint positions with your ______. This is the moment in which you as the architect and your client can begin to inject ______ and agency. But it has to be done together. And then only after this is done are you _______ to do this, begin to put forward architectural manifestations that manifest those positions. And both owner and architect alike are empowered to critique those manifestations based on the _________ that you've taken.

Solution


  1. positions
  2. allowed
  3. client
  4. vision

Original Text


But I'm going to reduce this to the beginning of the process, into three very pedantic statements. The first is: Take core positions with your client. I know it's shocking, right, that architecture would actually say that.

The second position is: Actually take positions. Take joint positions with your client. This is the moment in which you as the architect and your client can begin to inject vision and agency. But it has to be done together. And then only after this is done are you allowed to do this, begin to put forward architectural manifestations that manifest those positions. And both owner and architect alike are empowered to critique those manifestations based on the positions that you've taken.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. agency
  2. alike
  3. allowed
  4. architect
  5. architectural
  6. architecture
  7. based
  8. beginning
  9. client
  10. core
  11. critique
  12. empowered
  13. inject
  14. joint
  15. manifest
  16. manifestations
  17. moment
  18. owner
  19. pedantic
  20. position
  21. positions
  22. process
  23. put
  24. reduce
  25. shocking
  26. statements
  27. vision