Window Right
In accordance with window right, the lease guarantees the tenants of the Hundertwasser House the right to individual alterations of their living space. Excerpt from the lease: “Welcome to the...
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The Windows
Some people say that houses consist of walls. I say houses consist of windows. I designed eight window types which are of varying height and width and which are mounted irregularly in the walls, so...
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Tolerance of Irregularities
Irregularities on the facade. Photo: Kurt Pultar The barriers of beauty and the “non-regulated irregularities” and the spontaneous vegetation should be tolerated. If, for example, vertical rain marks...
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The Facade
Apartments have different colours. Photo: Kurt Pultar The outer walls of our modern buildings are our prison walls, for they are anonymous, without emotions, aggressive, heartless, cold and yawningly...
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The Brick Construction
The extent to which prejudices and biased opinions are rigidified against all evidence through false reporting in the press, I can describe by citing man episodes. Brick construction. Photo: Bernd...
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Hundertwasser and Architecture
The Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser started out as a painter. Since the early 1950s, however, he increasingly became focused on architecture, writing manifestos and essays and undertaking...
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The House Should Not Be Measured by Normal Standards
Hundertwasser at the press conference with Mayor Gratz on September 30, 1980 in Vienna Hundertwasser and Mayor Gratz on the occasion of the presentation of the model. Photo: Bernd Lötsch So it is...
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Hundertwasser-House is one of the most attractive sights in Vienna.Photo: Bernd Lötsch
View ArticleWindow Dictatorship and Window Right
Some people say houses consist of walls. I say houses consist of windows. When different houses stand next to each other in a street, all having different window types, i.e., window races, for example...
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The Man Is Dangerous …I maintain that this outstanding painter … is a weak number as an innovator of architecture! … …Reviewing Hundertwasser’s models, it seems unreasonable to demand from urbanites,...
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The Telephone Booth
In 1985 an English telephone booth was installed in front of Hundertwasser House, which Hundertwasser himself had imported from England. For Hundertwasser the English telephone booth was more in...
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