Truth and Lies in Architecture

Architecture is in crisis. Confronted by climate change, inequality, cultural exclusion, and its own failure to First Nations people, it also faces a crisis from within. How did this happen? How has the true nature of the practice been so undermined? In this podcast, Richard Francis-Jones reads his own essays, excavating into the depth of the problem, and the tracks that led us here

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  Episode #4

  The Face of Architecture and the Mask of the Architect

  Aug 20, 202615 minS1

  <p>Architecture has always had a face. A surface that connects and communicates a building to its surroundings.</p><p>But somewhere along the way, that face became a mask.</p><p>Richard Francis-Jones explores how that happened, and what it might mean to recover architecture's face again.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Credits<br>Author and Host:                                          Richard Francis-Jones<br>Producer and Audio Editor:                       Vanessa Adams<br>Thanks and Acknowledgement:             Erica Volk</p>

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  Episode #3

  The Slowness of Architecture and the Speed of the Architect

  Aug 13, 202631 minS1

  <p>Architecture is slow. It has always been slow.</p><p>We live in a culture organized around the ecstasy of speed, overwhelmed by information, stimulation, and the forgetting that follows.</p><p>Richard Francis-Jones explores what it means to design in a world that has lost the capacity to wait.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Credits<br>Author and Host:                                         Richard Francis-Jones<br>Producer and Audio Editor:                       Vanessa Adams<br>Thanks and Acknowledgement:             Erica Volk</p>

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  Episode #2

  The Truth of Architecture and the Lies of the Architect

  Aug 6, 202621 minS1

  <p>Architecture can make weight look weightless, walls look open, solid look transparent. </p><p>Every one of those is a lie. </p><p>Richard Francis-Jones argues that architecture's greatest truths are revealed through its lies.  As Picasso put it, "Art is a lie that makes us realise the truth."</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Credits<br>Author and Host:                                         Richard Francis-Jones<br>Producer and Audio Editor:                       Vanessa Adams<br>Thanks and Acknowledgement:             Erica Volk</p>

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  Episode #1

  The Theory of Architecture and the Intuition of the Architect

  Jul 29, 202610 minS1

  <p>Architecture isn't solved, it's felt. Not through theory, through intuition. A feeling that comes less from us than through us. </p><p>Theory offers a brief platform to catch your breath above the tide of practice, but it never holds for long. </p><p>Richard Francis-Jones traces what supplants it once that platform gives way.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Credits<br>Author and Host:                                         Richard Francis-Jones<br>Producer and Audio Editor:                       Vanessa Adams<br>Thanks and Acknowledgement:             Erica Volk</p>

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  Truth and Lies in Architecture

  Prologue: Melancholy of the Architect

  Jul 29, 202614 minS1

  <p>The feeling every architect has, but none talk about. </p><p>What if the honest response to crisis isn't hope, but melancholy? Not despair, but a form of creative clarity. </p><p>Richard Francis-Jones opens the series by naming the feeling most architects carry but rarely admit to.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Credits<br>Author and Host:                                         Richard Francis-Jones<br>Producer and Audio Editor:                       Vanessa Adams<br>Thanks and Acknowledgement:             Erica Volk</p>

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