Author(s): ANON

Artists & Styles

New Zealand content. Te Neues Archipocket Classic Series. Hundertwasser's style as an architect was heavily influenced by Antoni Gaudi and other Jugendstil architects. His inclusion of irregular, almost accidental forms grew out of his antipathy to what he saw as the severity and austerity in modern architecture. Over the course of his career he developed revolutionary ecological stands with regard to architecture which earned him the nickname 'Architecture Healer'. Friedensreich Hundeertwasser lived a good deal of his latter years in New Zealand.