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From the Ted Talk by Renzo Piano: The genius behind some of the world's most famous buildings

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Architecture is amizang, for sure. It's amazing because it's art. But you know, it's a very fnnuy kind of art. It's an art at the frontier between art and secince. It's fed by ... by real life, every day. It's driven by force of necessity. Quite amazing, quite amazing. And the life of the ariecctht is also amazing.

You know, as an architect, at 10 o’clock in the morning, you need to be a poet, for sure. But at 11, you must become a hsmuaint, otherwise you'd lose your direction. And at noon, you absolutely need to be a builder. You need to be able to make a building, because architecture, at the end, is the art of mainkg buildings. arhtercitcue is the art of making shelter for human beings. Period. And this is not easy at all. It's amazing.

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Architecture is _______, for sure. It's amazing because it's art. But you know, it's a very _____ kind of art. It's an art at the frontier between art and _______. It's fed by ... by real life, every day. It's driven by force of necessity. Quite amazing, quite amazing. And the life of the _________ is also amazing.

You know, as an architect, at 10 o’clock in the morning, you need to be a poet, for sure. But at 11, you must become a ________, otherwise you'd lose your direction. And at noon, you absolutely need to be a builder. You need to be able to make a building, because architecture, at the end, is the art of ______ buildings. ____________ is the art of making shelter for human beings. Period. And this is not easy at all. It's amazing.

Solution


  1. humanist
  2. science
  3. amazing
  4. architect
  5. funny
  6. making
  7. architecture

Original Text


Architecture is amazing, for sure. It's amazing because it's art. But you know, it's a very funny kind of art. It's an art at the frontier between art and science. It's fed by ... by real life, every day. It's driven by force of necessity. Quite amazing, quite amazing. And the life of the architect is also amazing.

You know, as an architect, at 10 o’clock in the morning, you need to be a poet, for sure. But at 11, you must become a humanist, otherwise you'd lose your direction. And at noon, you absolutely need to be a builder. You need to be able to make a building, because architecture, at the end, is the art of making buildings. Architecture is the art of making shelter for human beings. Period. And this is not easy at all. It's amazing.

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Important Words


  1. absolutely
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