Joe's

Friday, April 02, 2004

Last week I went with my German class to Wittenberg which is a small city where Luther published his 95 Theses and did a lot of his work. Wittenberg is also the home of a 'Hundertwasser Haus.' Hundertwasser was a post-modernist architect that died just a couple years ago. His buildings incorporate nature into their designs and don't use straight lines. The Hundertwasser in Wittenberg is a school. They've also taken on his philosophy in the administration of the school and the students are involved in the decoration of the school, they have visiting artists regularly come and teach art classes and such things that must make the other schools in Wittenberg fairly envious. Hundertwasser lived in New Zealand during his last years and in fact supervised the construction of the Wittenberg school via a web cam. He didn't live to actually see the school. Anyway, here's an amusing article I read the other day about one building he designed in New Zealand. The Hundertwasser Toilet

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