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(Trinh found a Stray Kitty.)

Who is Hundertwasser? He be an Architect!

“The critics said, ‘This is not architecture, this is a three-dimensional manifesto,’ ” Mr. Harel said. “Well, Hundertwasser agreed. He just wanted to show that the soul perishes in all these traditional buildings, and it’s especially dangerous because you don’t feel it happening. He felt the hidden longing of people to live differently.”

(Hundertwasser illustration by Zach McDonald.)

His efforts to make these points occasionally misfired. In 1982 Hundertwasser found himself speaking in the San Francisco offices of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, one of America’s largest architecture firms. Illustrating a point about how tenants should be free to leave their own mark on their dwellings, he grabbed a knife and began carving a design on the nearest wall. His point was not appreciated, and he later received a sizable bill for the damaged plaster.

Meanwhile the European Peoples, loved Hundertwasser’s Giblet Gravy, but he shunned the praise, insisting he was not no architect. “I’m not good. It’s just that the others are so bad.”

(pictured below is the affordable housing projects Hunder designed in Europe)

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