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Bent Architecture

Built on the land of the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin nation

Confusingly, good architecture is not the same as architecture that does good. Good architecture is that which is refined, experimental, impressive, resolved. These are the projects that are published in magazines, discussed in schools and awarded by professional institutes. Good architecture is judged by initiates and peers, but rarely are the opinions of inhabitants, clients or neighbours taken into account.

Architecture that does good, on the other hand, would be evaluated only on these terms. How does the building work to support the client? The inhabitant? The neighbours? The planet? How does the

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