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Our Wonderful Green Future (owgf@pixelfed.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 12:38:10 JST Our Wonderful Green Future

This dude, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, really was rocking the whole #SolarPunk vibe long before the movement was born. NICE!
#Urbanism #Architecture
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  Friedrich Stowasser (15 December 1928 – 19 February 2000), better known by his pseudonym Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser (German: [ˈfʁiːdn̩sʁaɪx ˈʁeːɡn̩taːk ˈdʊŋkl̩bʊnt ˈhʊndɐtˌvasɐ]), was an Austrian visual artist and architect who also worked in the field of environmental protection. He emigrated to the Far North of New Zealand in the 1970s, where he lived and worked for most of the rest of his life. Hundertwasser stood out as an opponent of "a straight line" and any standardization, expressing this concept in the field of building design. His best known work is the Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna, which has become a notable place of interest in the Austrian capital, characterised by imaginative vitality and uniqueness. Biography The Nazi era was a very difficult time for Hundertwasser and his mother Elsa, who were Jewish. They avoided persecution by posing as Christians, a credible ruse as Hundertwasser's father had been a Catholic. Hundertwasser was baptized...
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  As an OG #SolarPunk who lived and worked at Paolo Soleri's Arcosanti in the 70s, I loved visiting Hundertwasser's only work in the U.S., and his final work before he died in 2000, the Qixote Winery in Napa, California. It embodies his whimsical and environmental approach to building on a smaller scale.
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