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Karam Al-Masri, Barricade Made of Buses Used as Protection from Snipers, Aleppo, Syria, 2015 (via polychroniadis)
Source: TIME
They were too clever by half. They made a tactical manoeuvre of going explicitly against the tide, which certainly works in the art world, but not so much with buildings. They were always given the B-movie commissions, which is a great shame.... They've stirred up a little bit of trouble, but don't think they had a great effect on the British scene. It's because the British don't like explicit taste, fashion and style in architecture any more. In all the other arts they go crazy for it. If FAT had been around with Lord Burlington, everyone would have listened to them.
Charles Jencks, "On FAT," c. 2010