Sunday, January 27, 2008

Vienna saw sages

wow. the "Hundertwasserhaus." This is a low-income apartment block in Vienna, (designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser) which features undulating floors, dirt/grass roof, and indoor trees with limbs that reach outta the windows. From the looks of it, does seem that this structure sticks to his ideas from his Mould Manifesto:

"A person in a rented apartment must be able to lean out of his window and scrape off the masonry within arm's reach. And he must be allowed to take a long brush and paint everything outside within arm's reach. So that it will be visible from afar to everyone in the street that someone lives there who is different from the imprisoned, enslaved, standardised man who lives next door."

ha, I should leave a copy at the front desk for my landlord.

1 comment:

JP said...

This would make a cool painting Mandy! Sorta informs whatcha doin' now?...