For a truly philosophical take on the role of the architect in the post-truth era, Unfrozen interviews Richard Francis-Jones, author of Truth and Lies in Architecture.
Intro: ?Telling Lies,? by David Bowie
Discussed:
Architecture?s ambiguous relationship to truth.
The criteria that make a building worthy of love.
How can architecture bring us closer to nature?
Architecture is ?never neutral nor innocent. There is a mutual interconnection between architecture and the events around it.?
?Eternal principles? or a classicist, colonialist trap?
Ex Machina and the consciousness of materials
Locaton and Vassal
Tsien and Williams
John Keats
Aldo Rossi
Louis Kahn
The EY Centre, Sydney
The negative critique culture.
Outro: ?True,? by Spandau Ballet
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