鲜艳的色彩、有机的形式和对直线的厌恶只是百水(1928–2000)****的作风中一些不变的特征。一位不墨守成规的英雄、建筑师好活动家在建筑、绘画、宣言、行动等方面留下了一系列光彩夺目的创意和想法。

百水最**的作品是维也纳的百水公寓，它结合了决定艺术家整个作品的生命力和独特性。对百水而言，人类的痛苦源于理性、缺乏心意、单调的建筑。他呼吁抵制阿道夫•洛斯（Adolf Loos）等人所倡导的现代主义范式，并且倡导具有创意自由和生态承诺的建筑风格。作为直线——他称为“无宗教信仰和不道德”——的强烈反对者，百水对螺旋很着迷，这种绘画在克里姆特和席勒的分离主义形式中也有体现。

这本图文并茂的书籍描绘了百水的风格和视野，不仅适用于每栋建筑，也适用于整个社会。作者皮埃尔•雷斯塔尼（Pierre Restany）探讨了百水最引人注目的创新理念，并对20世纪的开创性思想进行了精彩的介绍。

Vivid color, organic forms, and a loathing of straight lines were just a few stalwart characteristics in the unique practice of Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928-2000). A non-conformist hero, the artist, architect, and activist left a blazing trail of imagination and ideas in buildings, paintings, manifestos, initiatives, and more.Hundertwasser's best-known work is considered by many to be the Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna, a structural synthesis of the vitality and uniqueness that determined the artist's entire oeuvre. For Hundertwasser, rational, sterile, monotonous buildings caused human misery. He called for a boycott of the modernist paradigm championed by the likes of Adolf Loos, and campaigned instead for an architecture of creative freedom and ecological commitment. A fierce opponent of straight lines, which he called "godless and immoral," Hundertwasser was fascinated by the spiral, drawing also on the Secessionist forms of Klimt and Schiele.This richly illustrated book traces Hundertwasser's style and vision not only for each building, but for society at large. From naked addresses at the end of the 1960s to worldwide architecture projects and alternative blueprints for society, author Pierre Restany explores Hundertwasser's most high-profile and innovative ideas in a thrilling introduction to a pioneering 20th-century mind.