»FAT means Fashion Architecture Taste. The idea was to link architecture to fashion and taste, two things which are still quite controversial for it to be associated with, and deliberately provocative of the idea that architecture is about timelessness and authenticity, you know, the love of stone under the Italian sun.«
We bundled Charles Holland, Director of FAT, into our photo booth to ask him a few searching questions about Charles Jencks, postmodernism, recession survival, living in Berlin in the 1990s, and the origins of the strange practice name: Fashion, Architecture, Taste.
Part of our full-on issue no. 10: “Wood, Paper, Pulp”