The Hundertwasserhaus is a residential complex. Unique and Different. =) - Vienna Austria - ECTV

The Hundertwasserhaus is a residential complex built between 1983 and 1985 by the municipality of Vienna and is located on the corner of Kegelgasse 34-38 and Löwengasse 41-43 in Vienna's 3rd district, Landstraße.
The Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser had been working with architecture since the 1950s. He began his engagement with manifestos, essays and demonstrations. In particular, his mold manifesto became known. In 1972, he showed architectural models in the Eurovision programme Wünsch Dir was, with which he illustrated his ideas of roof forestation, tree tenants and window rights and developed architectural forms such as the Hoch-Wiesen-Haus, the Augenschlitzhaus or the Terrassenhaus. [1] In lectures at universities and at architects' associations and offices, Hundertwasser spoke about his concern for architecture that was more in harmony with nature and people.
In a letter dated 30 November 1977 to the Mayor of Vienna, Leopold Gratz, Chancellor Bruno Kreisky recommended that Hundertwasser be given the opportunity to implement his concerns in the field of architecture in the construction of a residential building. Gratz then invited Hundertwasser in a letter dated December 15, 1977 to design a residential building in Vienna according to his ideas. [2] This was followed by years of searching for a suitable property. Since Hundertwasser was not an architect, he asked the City of Vienna to provide him with an architect who would be willing to translate his concept into adequate plan drawings.
The city administration put Hundertwasser in touch with the architect Josef Krawina. In August and September 1979, the latter presented Hundertwasser with his preliminary designs based on the regulations for social housing at the time, as well as a polystyrene model, which, however, corresponded to the architectural concept of the closed construction method and which Hundertwasser rejected in shock, as it corresponded exactly to the linear and levelling grid architecture against which he had always fought. [3] Hundertwasser wanted a "house for people and trees", as he had already described it years earlier in his text "Verwaldung der Stadt": He had already visualised this house in his model of the "terrace house" for the programme "Wünsch Dir was". [4]
In 1979, Hundertwasser succeeded in winning over the city of Vienna for his concept of a green terrace construction and thus for exceptions to the building regulations that would normally apply. In March 1980, a second preliminary design by Krawina followed, including the associated perspective or axonometric drawings and an accompanying balsa wood model. Krawina developed a building that deviated significantly from the building regulations but was capable of consensus by making intensive use of the legal possibilities granted. This building was left essentially unchanged throughout all planning steps and was actually executed. [5]
"Subsequently, there were disputes between Hundertwasser and Krawina, which escalated during the design of the façade. The dispute led to Krawina's withdrawal from the cooperation on 14.10.1981.[5]"
The artist had written to Rudolf Kolowrath, head of the Municipal Department 19 (Architecture), asking him to replace the architect so that he could realize his own ideas. Architect Peter Pelikan, an employee of Municipal Department 19, took over the further planning. He became a long-standing partner for Hundertwasser for numerous other construction projects. However, in 2010, on the occasion of a long-standing legal dispute over the authorship of the building, the Supreme Court held:
"The opinion of the Court of Appeal that architect Krawina and Hundertwasser were co-authors, [...] is based on comprehensible conclusions from the evidentiary proceedings [...]"
In 2001, H.B. Medienvertriebsgesellschaft mbH was able to convince Krawina to sue for the "Hundertwasser House" as his work. After an eight-year trial, the Supreme Court ruled on March 11, 2010:
"There is no doubt that Krawina made her own creative contributions to the building after the evidence has been supplemented by the expert's report; the Court of Appeal based its correct legal opinion of Krawina's co-authorship on this."
Since then, it has been necessary to name Josef Krawina as a co-author in addition to Hundertwasser when distributing replicas or replicas of the house. [6]
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