This amazing house is named after his designer. Hundertwasser House is a residential building located in Vienna designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser with original co-author Josef Krawina (architect). Built in the years 1983–1985, designed in harmony with nature.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser started out as a painter, but early 1950s he became more focused on architecture. In 1972 he visualized his ideas about forested roofs, tree tenants and window rights. What’s the window rights? Below you can read Hundertwasser’s manifesto clearing the subject. Check if he was right…
“Window
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 an Art Nouveau house
with Art Nouveau windows next to a modern house with unadorned square windows,
followed in turn by a Baroque house with Baroque windows, nobody minds.
But should the three window types of the three houses belong to one
house, it is seen as a violation of the racial segregation of windows. Why?
Each individual window has its own right to life.
According to the prevailing code, however, if window races are mixed,
window apartheid is infringed.
Everything is there: racial prejudice, racial
discrimination, racial policy, racial ideology, racial barriers, with fateful
impact of window apartheid on man. The apartheid of window races must cease.
For the repetition of identical windows next to each other and above each
other as in a grid system is a characteristic of concentration camps.
Windows in rank and file are sad, windows should be able to dance.
In the new architecture of satellite towns and in new administration
buildings, banks, hospitals and schools, the levelling of windows is
unbearable.
Individuals are never identical and defend themselves against these
standardising dictates either passively or actively, depending on their
constitution. Thus either with alcohol and drug addiction, exodus from the
city, cleaning mania, television dependency, inexplicable physical complaints,
allergies, depressions and even suicide, or alternatively with aggression,
vandalism and crime.
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.
Author: Hundertwasser,
January 1990
Manifesto was originally published on Hundertwasser official werbsite
Manifesto was originally published on Hundertwasser official werbsite