I love interesting architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright's homes and buildings are among my favourite, been to Fallingwater and loved it. Hoping to go and see the Guggenheim Gallery this year. Other architects are also fascinating. The most recent is Friedensreich Hundertwasser, artist and architect. An artist who declared that "A human being has three layers between him and the world. The first layer is his skin. The second layer is his clothing. The third layer is his architecture. Over the centuries we have perverted and distorted... our clothing and our architecture to such a degree that they no longer suit our needs."Hundertwasser's architecture is wonderous. He designed district heating plants, incinerators, highway restaurants as well as apartment buildings, public toilets, posters, stamps and even a ship. He was prolific and fascinating.
As Christopher Hume, Toronto Star columnist says "In Canada, let alone Toronto, we could use a hundred Hundertwassers. So far, we have none."
Explore Hundertwasser's work.
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