October 30, 1998

Architects' Designs Celebrate a Site in Many Voices

By DAVID L. WHEELER

As Richard Fernau drives up a Marin County hill, his early training as a philosopher is showing through his current work as an architect. "The problem with architecture," he says, "is that there is no truth in it. There's only a relative truth, bounded by a certain set of circumstances."

Mr. Fernau, a professor of architecture at the University of California at Berkeley who also is a working architect here, is on his way to take a look

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