FAT
EST LONDON 1995
SEAN GRIFFITHS
‘The name was conceived by accident. It was supposed to be the
name of a magazine rather than an architecture practice.
‘It was a call to arms – FAT as an acronym for Fashion Architecture
Taste. It set us against the idea of architecture as something abstract
and timeless, as something outside of the fripperies of fashion and
beyond the politics of taste. We thought – and still do – that architecture
is part of these phenomena and that engaging with them directly is a
way for architecture to become politicised.
‘ We weren’t in uenced by other practices; band names maybe…’
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