Architecture, Colour and Images. Ideas and Designs by Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Colour, imagination, inspiration, amazement. These four words very fittingly describe the work of the Viennese artist/architect Friedrich Stowasser, better known as Hundertwasser (meaning hundred water), a master of organic thinking who between 1928 and 2000 worked and lived in Vienna, Venice and Ne...

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Main Author: Emanuela Chiavoni
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-11-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2504-3900/1/9/953
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spelling doaj-e9094c2ee3fa4a549fc404e93f42b1f12020-11-25T01:46:54ZengMDPI AGProceedings2504-39002017-11-011995310.3390/proceedings1090953proceedings1090953Architecture, Colour and Images. Ideas and Designs by Friedensreich HundertwasserEmanuela Chiavoni0Disegno e Restauro dell’Architettura, Dipartimento di Storia, “Sapienza” Università di Roma, 00185 Roma, ItalyColour, imagination, inspiration, amazement. These four words very fittingly describe the work of the Viennese artist/architect Friedrich Stowasser, better known as Hundertwasser (meaning hundred water), a master of organic thinking who between 1928 and 2000 worked and lived in Vienna, Venice and New Zealand. He uses eye-catching images to convey his ideas, forcefully expressive chromatic forms and patterns that betray a strong link with a re-interpreted geometric structure. This contribution, inspired by Hundertwasser’s works, intends to study the unique relationship between creativity, imagination and architecture based on sociological, cultural and psychological principles.https://www.mdpi.com/2504-3900/1/9/953architecturecolourimagesdesignHundertwasser
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title Architecture, Colour and Images. Ideas and Designs by Friedensreich Hundertwasser
title_short Architecture, Colour and Images. Ideas and Designs by Friedensreich Hundertwasser
title_full Architecture, Colour and Images. Ideas and Designs by Friedensreich Hundertwasser
title_fullStr Architecture, Colour and Images. Ideas and Designs by Friedensreich Hundertwasser
title_full_unstemmed Architecture, Colour and Images. Ideas and Designs by Friedensreich Hundertwasser
title_sort architecture, colour and images. ideas and designs by friedensreich hundertwasser
publisher MDPI AG
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publishDate 2017-11-01
description Colour, imagination, inspiration, amazement. These four words very fittingly describe the work of the Viennese artist/architect Friedrich Stowasser, better known as Hundertwasser (meaning hundred water), a master of organic thinking who between 1928 and 2000 worked and lived in Vienna, Venice and New Zealand. He uses eye-catching images to convey his ideas, forcefully expressive chromatic forms and patterns that betray a strong link with a re-interpreted geometric structure. This contribution, inspired by Hundertwasser’s works, intends to study the unique relationship between creativity, imagination and architecture based on sociological, cultural and psychological principles.
topic architecture
colour
images
design
Hundertwasser
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