FAT @ BCL

6.30pm Wednesday 30 January 2008
Darwin Lecture Theatre, UCL
Gower Street
London WC1

SEAN GRIFFITHS (FAT)

Ruining Architecture
Sean Griffiths is a director of Fat. He studied architecture at Manchester Polytechnic and the Polytechnic of Central London, before forming Fat in 1993. Fat is renowned as one of the most innovative architectural practices in the UK and recently completed the acclaimed Islington Square affordable housing project in Manchester The practice is currently working on major housing projects in London, a rural masterplan in Dorset, and a Park in Rotterdam. Sean also writes about architecture and urbansim and is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Westminster. He is presently the Louis I Kahn Visiting Professor at Yale School of Architecture.

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The talk was interesting but in some places a little boring because the main focus was with architecture. A floor plan is just a floor plan. The work that was shown was FAT's most well known work and it was good to learn about the inspiration behind the projects. I found from the talk, the concepts for the ideas were great and pushing the boundaries, but the reality had to be calmed down and didn't really do the work justice.

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