integrating nature into the built environment, and making cities less boring
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GEOG 340: Day 16
Integrating Nature into the Built Environment, and Making Cities Less Boring
Housekeeping Items
» Still working on the assignments.» Next Tuesday, “Salmon Confidential” is
showing at 7 p.m. in Building 200, Room 203 (the auditorium).
» In the folder, there is a notice of a presentation by Horticulture students on Friday concerning new Culinary Arts students’ gardens.
» Today, after showing you another interesting architect’s work, I’ll show “Biophilic Design.”
Hundertwasser
» In addition to Antoni Gaudi, who died in 1926 after being run over by a tram, another inter-esting architect (and artist) who was born two years after Gaudi is Friedensreich Hunder-twasser, an Austrian. He has also designed some astounding buildings, most of which are found in Vienna.
» For more information, see Wikipedia and http://www.hundertwasser.com/index_en.php.
Major structures byHundertwasser. In Hundertwasser Haus,on right, every unit isunique.