Drawn Here: Sean Griffiths at the Walker Art Center
Thursday March 6, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
Walker Art Center
Free tickets are available at the Bazinet Garden Lobby desk from 6:00 p.m.
Architect Sean Griffiths will lecture as part of the Walker Art Center's Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes exhibition.
FAT (Fashion Architecture Taste), as its name implies, pushes for a more inclusive architecture that is responsive to contemporary culture. FAT’s quirky, allusive work challenges the profession’s notions of acceptable taste and operates from the premise that architecture is a form of communication that should speak the language of its users. London-based FAT has developed a reputation for making buildings, installations, and interiors that are memorable, engaging, and embrace a more populist sensibility, which is manifest in easily recognizable forms, the use of decoration and ornament, and a vibrant palette of color and material. Established in 1995, FAT’s innovative building and urban design projects range from the creation of a new “summer village and hobby park” in a suburb of Rotterdam (included in the exhibition, Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes) 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.