Architecture has never been more challenged.

Architecture has never been more challenged than it is today.

Addressing the sheer scale of the triple challenges of environmental sustainability, in the form of climate change;?the social, in the form of class, gender and racial inequality; and the cultural, in terms of identity, exclusion and prejudice in particular against First Nations People,

is a seemingly overwhelmingly task for architecture.?

At the same time these great challenges come at a moment when architecture has never been so marginalised and diminished.?

The practice of architecture has been progressively desiccated, undermined and commodified, through the instrumental processes of contemporary development?industry and professional practice, together with the simplistic reductionism of media?technology and market consumption demand.?

How could this happen?

How can the true nature of Architecture have been so undermined?

Truth and Lies in Architecture is a series of explorations and excavations into this vexed territory in an attempt to uncover the depth and nature of the diminishment of contemporary architecture, and the tracks that led us here.?

The following is an excerpt of the Introduction from the book Truth and Lies in Architecture by, Richard-Francis Jones.?Over the course of the next few weeks, we are looking forward to sharing more excerpts of short essays from the book.

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