{"product_id":"hundertwasser-by-pierre-restany-9783836564212","title":"Hundertwasser","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVivid colour, organic forms, and a loathing of straight lines were just a few stalwart characteristics in the unique practice of \u003cb\u003eFriedensreich Hundertwasser\u003c\/b\u003e (1928-2000). A \u003cb\u003enon-conformist hero\u003c\/b\u003e, the artist, architect, and activist left a blazing trail of imagination and ideas in buildings, paintings, manifestos, initiatives, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHundertwasser's best-known work is considered by many to be the \u003cb\u003eHundertwasserhaus in Vienna\u003c\/b\u003e, a structural synthesis of the vitality and uniqueness that determined the artist's entire oeuvre. For Hundertwasser, rational, sterile, monotonous buildings caused human misery. He called for \u003cb\u003ea boycott of the modernist paradigm\u003c\/b\u003e championed by the likes of Adolf Loos, and campaigned instead for an \u003cb\u003earchitecture of creative freedom and ecological commitment\u003c\/b\u003e. A fierce opponent of straight lines, which he called \"godless and immoral,\" Hundertwasser was fascinated by the spiral, drawing also on the Secessionist forms of Klimt and Schiele.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis richly illustrated book, \u003cem\u003eHundertwasser\u003c\/em\u003e by Pierre Restany, traces Hundertwasser's style and vision not only for each building but for society at large. From \u003cb\u003enaked addresses\u003c\/b\u003e at the end of the 1960s to worldwide architecture projects and \u003cb\u003ealternative blueprints\u003c\/b\u003e for society, author Pierre Restany explores Hundertwasser's most high-profile and innovative ideas in a thrilling introduction to a pioneering 20th-century mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47463236042988,"sku":"9783836564212","price":45.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783836564212-hundertwasser.jpg?v=1775029833","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/hundertwasser-by-pierre-restany-9783836564212","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}