Category Archives: Hundertwasser on the House

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. An opponent of Hundertwasser and the house is standing next to me, about ten … Continue reading →

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 empty. These are the freedom-depriving characteristics of prison walls. Behind anonymous … Continue reading →

The barriers of beauty and the “non-regulated irregularities” and the spontaneous vegetation should be tolerated. If, for example, vertical rain marks or rust streaks or dirt marks enliven the façade or spots form on the wall, this should be considered … Continue reading →

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 that one gets the impression … Continue reading →

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 Hundertwasser House – the first house with window right.” Lease … Continue reading →

The hanging gardens of Semiramis in Babylon were probably terraces with greenery. Not the ones hidden in the back, but the ones open to the street are a gift for everyone – for those, too, who do not live in … Continue reading →

They are a gift of the house to the outside world, for the people who pass by the house. Man gives voluntarily small territories of his dwelling space back to nature, from which we unlawfully appropriated and destroyed large areas. … Continue reading →

The connecting passageways between the stairways and the lift in the first stairwell form the grey tower. It is a contrast to the colourful apartments and the hanging gardens. In the mirror tiles the moon or sun are reflected either … Continue reading →

They came about as if by a miracle, sort of as a by-product of the tile paving: the mosaics on the walls, on the floor of the stairways and in the corridors – spontaneously, the way flowers and trees suddenly … Continue reading →

The fountain comprises five parts placed one on top of the other: 1. a concrete basin, 2. a ceramic basin with matte-white, black and grey portions, 3. a concrete casting basin, 4. a smaller pink ceramic basin and 5. a … Continue reading →

If a person, weary of civilisation and sullen from rationality, takes off his clothes in his bathroom, he also wants to forget the latent daily discomfort of the straight line and the right angle. But he can’t, because he is … Continue reading →

There is only one remedy for the disease of the far overhanging canopies, balconies and building portions: columns. The overhanging building portions with no support are probably intended to demonstrate the daring of the architect and statical engineer, but they … Continue reading →

A lively, uneven floor in the public area means a regaining of the human dignity which man is deprived of by the levelling tendencies of urbanism. A crucial experience has been taken away from him. Austria was always a pioneer … Continue reading →

The onion towers of the house are well adapted to the neighbourhood. On the neighbouring buildings there are already five characteristic towers. Rich and powerful and tasteful people always had towers. But for a modern average person to have towers, … Continue reading →

The absolutely straight, dead skyline is an ignominious heirloom of the Bauhaus. If the boundary between the earth and the sky, as it were the transition from man to God, is murdered by the ruler, all the bridges are broken … Continue reading →