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From the Ted Talk by Joshua Prince-Ramus: Behind the design of Seattle's library

Unscramble the Blue Letters


I'm going to present three prtoejcs in rapid fire. I don't have much time to do it. And I want to reinforce three ideas with that rapid-fire presentation.

The first is what I like to call a hyper-rational process. It's a process that takes rationality almost to an absurd level, and it transcends all the bgaggae that normally comes with what people would call, sort of a rational conlosiucn to something. And it concludes in something that you see here, that you actually wouldn't expect as being the result of rationality.

The second — the second is that this process does not have a sruntgaie. There is no athrsouhip. Architects are obsessed with authorship. This is something that has editing and it has teams, but in fact, we no longer see within this peosrcs, the traditional master architect ciraentg a sketch that his minions carry out.

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I'm going to present three ________ in rapid fire. I don't have much time to do it. And I want to reinforce three ideas with that rapid-fire presentation.

The first is what I like to call a hyper-rational process. It's a process that takes rationality almost to an absurd level, and it transcends all the _______ that normally comes with what people would call, sort of a rational __________ to something. And it concludes in something that you see here, that you actually wouldn't expect as being the result of rationality.

The second — the second is that this process does not have a _________. There is no __________. Architects are obsessed with authorship. This is something that has editing and it has teams, but in fact, we no longer see within this _______, the traditional master architect ________ a sketch that his minions carry out.

Solution


  1. projects
  2. creating
  3. signature
  4. process
  5. baggage
  6. conclusion
  7. authorship

Original Text


I'm going to present three projects in rapid fire. I don't have much time to do it. And I want to reinforce three ideas with that rapid-fire presentation.

The first is what I like to call a hyper-rational process. It's a process that takes rationality almost to an absurd level, and it transcends all the baggage that normally comes with what people would call, sort of a rational conclusion to something. And it concludes in something that you see here, that you actually wouldn't expect as being the result of rationality.

The second — the second is that this process does not have a signature. There is no authorship. Architects are obsessed with authorship. This is something that has editing and it has teams, but in fact, we no longer see within this process, the traditional master architect creating a sketch that his minions carry out.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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high modernist 3
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dallas theater 3
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book spiral 2
public libraries 2
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theater company 2
light enclosure 2
million square 2
square feet 2

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collocation frequency
contemporary art museum 4
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Important Words


  1. absurd
  2. architect
  3. architects
  4. authorship
  5. baggage
  6. call
  7. carry
  8. concludes
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  10. creating
  11. editing
  12. expect
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  14. fire
  15. ideas
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  18. master
  19. minions
  20. obsessed
  21. people
  22. present
  23. presentation
  24. process
  25. projects
  26. rapid
  27. rational
  28. rationality
  29. reinforce
  30. result
  31. signature
  32. sketch
  33. sort
  34. takes
  35. teams
  36. time
  37. traditional
  38. transcends