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    Truth and Lies in Architecture

    Mar 16, 2022 3 minutes
    Chris Barton

    Richard Francis-Jones

    ORO Editions, 2022

    Melancholy wouldn’t be most people’s pick for the driving emotion of the architect. Egotistical self-belief might more likely come to mind. But, in his collection of essays, Truth and Lies in Architecture, acclaimed Australian architect Richard Francis-Jones sets off from this shore of profound sadness.

    And who can blame him, when the practice of architecture “has been progressively desiccated, undermined and commodified through the

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