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Episode 30: True Lies
Unfrozen
English - June 11, 2022 20:44 - 46 minutes - 64.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsDesign Arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: "Al" in on Supertalls
Next Episode: Episode 31: Emergent Tokyo
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