46 min
Episode 30: True Lies Unfrozen
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- Design
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
Richard Lepastrier
Louis Kahn
David Chalmers
The EY Centre, Sydney
The negative critique culture.
Outro: “True,” by Spandau Ballet
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
Richard Lepastrier
Louis Kahn
David Chalmers
The EY Centre, Sydney
The negative critique culture.
Outro: “True,” by Spandau Ballet
46 min