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From the Ted Talk by Greg Lynn: Organic algorithms in architecture

Unscramble the Blue Letters


To go back to architecture, what's organic about arccithterue as a field, unlike procudt design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our relam. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also baerk down into small romos and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale. attrcceihs tend to work with signature, so that an architect needs a siuargtne and that signature has to work across the scale of houses up to, say, skyscrapers, and that problem of signatures is a thing we're very good at maintaining and working with; and intricacy, which is the relationship of, say, the shape of a building, its structure, its windows, its color, its pattern. These are real architectural problems.

Open Cloze


To go back to architecture, what's organic about ____________ as a field, unlike _______ design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our _____. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also _____ down into small _____ and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale. __________ tend to work with signature, so that an architect needs a _________ and that signature has to work across the scale of houses up to, say, skyscrapers, and that problem of signatures is a thing we're very good at maintaining and working with; and intricacy, which is the relationship of, say, the shape of a building, its structure, its windows, its color, its pattern. These are real architectural problems.

Solution


  1. realm
  2. signature
  3. architects
  4. break
  5. rooms
  6. architecture
  7. product

Original Text


To go back to architecture, what's organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale. Architects tend to work with signature, so that an architect needs a signature and that signature has to work across the scale of houses up to, say, skyscrapers, and that problem of signatures is a thing we're very good at maintaining and working with; and intricacy, which is the relationship of, say, the shape of a building, its structure, its windows, its color, its pattern. These are real architectural problems.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
person paying 3
decimal point 2
natural form 2
hanging chain 2
foam bubble 2
generic form 2
structural steel 2
housing project 2
world trade 2
trade center 2
center site 2
single system 2
building elements 2
decorative effects 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
world trade center 2
trade center site 2

Important Words


  1. architect
  2. architects
  3. architectural
  4. architecture
  5. big
  6. break
  7. building
  8. coherent
  9. color
  10. design
  11. field
  12. good
  13. holism
  14. houses
  15. identity
  16. intricacy
  17. issue
  18. maintaining
  19. monumentality
  20. object
  21. organic
  22. pattern
  23. problem
  24. problems
  25. product
  26. real
  27. realm
  28. relationship
  29. rooms
  30. scale
  31. shape
  32. signature
  33. signatures
  34. single
  35. skyscrapers
  36. small
  37. structure
  38. tend
  39. windows
  40. work
  41. working