FAS Manifesto

Dearest Switzerland,

We met some time ago. (I believe it was a party) We were the rest of the world. (We were the maids.) We had a love child. Her name is FAS. (Foreign Architects Switzerland) We thought it best that she keep your surname, even though you haven’t taken one single interest in your child. (Is it because she’s a Foreigner?)

FAS (Furthering Activist Solidarity) doesn’t want your money. FAS (Frequently Attacking Standards) just wants to talk. FAS (Freaks And Suffragettes) wants real dialogue in the architectural community.

FAS (Forum of Anonyous Statements) is a platform for ideas, projects, and people that remain illegitimate to the brain-dead, incestuous architectural media of Switzerland. We recognize that architecture has a potential to have a great social impact in this peculiar country, but has been severely limited by the narrow focus of its practitioners. It is time that light is shed on the alternative perspectives of thousands of foreign thinkers.

FAS (Fat And Sexy) breaks through antiquated paradigms and technocratic piousness prevalent in this architectural bubble. It is impossible that such a technically advanced culture can sustain with such a medieval, xenophobic social order. We need architects, not technicians, for the 21st century!

FAS is not (Fashionable Architecture from Squares) the official organ of foreign architects in Switzerland.*
*The views and opinions expressed by FAS (Foundation for Alpine Sabotage) in no way reflect the views and opinions of foreign architects in Switzerland.

FAS does not stand for Fascist Architecture School.*
*But could stand for Fundemental Arabic Society.

FAS (Flawed Argument Scripting) is never right.

FAS (Fight Arrogant Suckers) does not know what it is doing, but dares to nonetheless.


Love,
The Rest of the World.