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Questions of Taste
Author(s) -
Holland Charles
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1298
Subject(s) - taste , privilege (computing) , square (algebra) , venturi effect , architecture , class (philosophy) , art history , sociology , law , aesthetics , art , visual arts , political science , engineering , psychology , philosophy , epistemology , mechanical engineering , geometry , mathematics , neuroscience , inlet
Abstract Charles Holland of FAT picks up the Post‐Modern baton from Venturi Scott Brown and Charles Jencks and raises the neglected topic of taste. Though the way architecture is experienced by people is bound up with taste, it remains an area of discomfort for architects – tied up with awkward discussions of privilege and class. Holland shows how in FAT's Islington Square housing project the DIY taste of the residents was not only embraced, but fully accommodated. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.