Architecture-specific jargon:

 Pastiche
 Sustainability
 Ergonomy
 Genius loci
 Facade
 Charette
 Regionalism
 Threshold
 Massing
 Enfilade
 Materiality
 Poché
 Post-industrial
 Diagrammatic
 Vernacular
 Modular
 Deconstruction
 Typology
 Parametric
 Program
 Skin
 Building envelope
 Vault
 Arcade
 Fenestration
 Truncated
 Parti
 Flâneur
 Phenomenology
  Brutalism
 Cantilever
 Curvilinear
 Rectilinear
 Miesian
 Corbusian
 Permaculture
 Blobitecture
 Exurbia
 Walkability
 Pilotis
 Verticality
 Rebate
 Mullion
 Muntin
 Gentrification
 Stylobate
Simple words given new meaning by architects:
 Concept
 Space
 Fabric (urban or building)
 Metaphor
 Legibility (of something other than writing)
 Dimension (meaning a characteristic of something)
 Moment
 Celebrate
 Negotiate
 Dynamic
 Language
 Context
  Gesture
 Proud (“the countertop is proud of the cabinet”)
 Taxonomy
 Hierarchy
 Scale
 Section
 Formal
 Nodes
 Pods
 Grain
 Extrapolate
 Device
 Elevation
Obscure words that architects overuse (or misuse):
 Iconic
 Organic
 Dichotomy
 Eclectic
 Kitsch
 Sequence
 Stasis
 Interstitial / Interstice
 Iteration
 Juxtapose/Juxtaposition
 Stereotomic
 Tectonics (and architectonics)
 Liminal
 Articulate
 Ephemeral
 Domesticity
 Anthropogenic
 Regenerate
 Hybrid
 Generative
 Ambiguity
 Catalyst
 Penetrate
 Appropriate
 Inspiration
 Contemporary
 Amalgamation
 Performative
 Hegemony
 Curate
 Bifurcate
 Superimpose
 Confluences
 Gestalt
 Zeitgeist
 Banal
 Blasé
 Motifs
 Procession
 Homogenous
 Palimpsest
 Paradigm
 Dissonance
 Adjacencies
 Parallax
 Assemblage
  Aesthetic
 Monolithic
 Uniformity
 Morphology
 Duality
 Nuance
 Transient
 Redundancy
 Robust
 Bespoke
 Holistic (sometimes even wholistic)
 Simultaneity
 Esoteric
 Concretization
 Schism
Unusual terms or phrases that architects love:
 Play with (light, space, materials)
 Human scale
 Create/provide a gesture
 How the ____ is received by the ____
 Spatial composition
 Map out
 Explores the notion
 Programmatic adjacencies
 Activate the space
 Public Realm
 Outdoor room
Strange concepts within architecture:
 Solid/Void
 Interiority/Exteriority
 Push/Pull
 Bottom up/Top down
 Transparency/Opacity
 Served and Service
 Negative/Positive space