Truth and Lies in Architecture

Richard Francis-Jones
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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

Episodes

  1. 2d ago

    The Nature of Architecture and the Extinction of the Architect

    What does it mean for architecture to be sustainable? And what, exactly, are we trying to sustain? In this episode, Richard Francis-Jones explores the relationship between architecture and nature, and how modernity has increasingly separated us from the natural world. As architecture becomes more technical, measurable and engineered, what happens to its essential relationship with nature? And if architecture loses this connection, what is to become of the architect? Credits Author and Host:                                         Richard Francis-JonesProducer and Audio Editor:                  Vanessa AdamsThanks and Acknowledgement:      Erica Volk

    The Nature of Architecture and the Extinction of the Architect

  2. Aug 20

    The Face of Architecture and the Mask of the Architect

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

    The Face of Architecture and the Mask of the Architect

  3. Aug 13

    The Slowness of Architecture and the Speed of the Architect

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

    The Slowness of Architecture and the Speed of the Architect

  4. Aug 6

    The Truth of Architecture and the Lies of the Architect

    Architecture can make weight look weightless, walls look open, solid look transparent.  Every one of those is a lie.  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." Credits Author and Host:                                         Richard Francis-JonesProducer and Audio Editor:                     Vanessa AdamsThanks and Acknowledgement:          Erica Volk

    The Truth of Architecture and the Lies of the Architect

  5. Jul 30

    The Theory of Architecture and the Intuition of the Architect

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

    The Theory of Architecture and the Intuition of the Architect

  6. Jul 30

    Prologue: Melancholy of the Architect

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

    Prologue: Melancholy of the Architect

  7. Jul 30

    Acknowledgement of Country

    Richard Francis-Jones opens the series with an Acknowledgment of Country. Credits Author and Host:                                          Richard Francis-JonesProducer and Audio Editor:                   Vanessa AdamsThanks and Acknowledgement:        Erica Volk

    Acknowledgement of Country

  8. Season 1 Trailer

    Truth and Lies in Architecture Trailer

    Through a series of deeply reflective essays, Richard Francis-Jones explores the profound questions confronting architecture, asking what it has forgotten, what it has become, and what it might yet be. Credits Author and Host:                                        Richard Francis-Jones Producer and Audio Editor:                Vanessa Adams Thanks and Acknowledgement:     Erica Volk

    Truth and Lies in Architecture Trailer

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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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