Thursday, March 6
7:00 pm
Walker Cinema
Free tickets available from 6 pm at the Bazinet Garden Lobby desk
For those out there who just saw Marian Bantjes and want more design, check out the FAT talk this Thursday! FAT is featured in the Worlds Away exhibition currently on view at the Walker.
FAT (Fashion Architecture Taste), as its name implies, pushes for a more inclusive architecture that is responsive to contemporary culture. Its quirky, allusive work challenges the profession’s notions of acceptable taste and operates from the premise that architecture is a form of communication and should speak the language of its users. The London-based group, established in 1995, has developed a reputation for making buildings, installations, and interiors that embrace a more populist sensibility found in easily recognizable forms, the use of decoration and ornament, and a vibrant palette of color. FAT’s projects range from the creation of a new “ summer village and hobby park” in a suburb of Rotterdam to the transformation of a former Gothic church into the offices for advertising firm Kassels Kramer in Amsterdam to designs for trailer homes for artists in northern Scotland. Webcast on the Walker Channel.
You can see more of their work here: http://fashionarchitecturetaste.com/
I’ve been and wandered round the houses you picture here, and they’re absolutely terrible. They’re supposed to be a “twenty-first century” solution to social housing in Manchester, but what they really are is patronising, poorly executed and completely lacking in architectural bravery. People might also be interested to know that the first residents in those houses had to move out because they leaked so badly.
Comment by Newfred — March 27, 2008 @ 9:45 am