Hundertwasser Haus

Yes I KNOW I have already posted about this but here is a better site for you.

When I saw postcards abut this house some years ago I thought it was a fairy story house, not real. But it is a FULL SIZED real house. And there is also a motorway cafe in the same style and also a village and EVEN a waste-burning works .... which also provides heating.

Hundertwasser is a Viennese painter, ecologist and architect who believed that buildings should be 'organic' - able to adapt and change to peole's lives. He is a philosopher as well I guess. One of the principles he worked by, was that buldings tend to be too regimented, too straight and restrictive. So he had wavy floors - which he said suit the human body movements bestter than flat floors and were more in tune with the natural world. He believed that peole should express themselves in the buildings they occupy and that they should write and draw on them if they wish ...

I completely fell in love with the place as well as with the woman who ran the Hundertwasser cafe. Here are some pictures, including one of a fellow photographer who I would like to name Hundertwasser woman as she REALLY matched the building ...

so this is the main entrance to one of the houses, next to the cafe.



I love all the colours and the tiling.



People were taking photos everywhere.



And this is Hundertwasser woman.



Even the toilets were 'designer'.



The Austrians love sausage as much as the Germans do, I guess.



And finally, Hundertwasser loved New Zealand and made it clear how to get there from any given point.