"Open your eyes to the amazing possibilities of city living"
A Children's Book Inspired by Friedensreich Hundertwasser
A girl, her two friends and her parrot watch with curiosity, trepidation and then delight as their neighbourhood is transformed. Who is changing their big, gray, tidy city into a river of colour and pattern? They suspect a ‘wizard of the rooftops’, and so it is, in a way. The story is inspired by Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser, pioneer of ecological architecture and creator of the amazing Hundertwasser House in Vienna, which eschews straight lines in favour of the curves and lines we find in nature and trees grow inside rooms. The children in the story find that their favourite tree is protected, valued as much in their new look city as they are. A wave of colour flows through the book and almost seems to spill out of the pages – who wouldn’t want to live in – or build – a city like this? Photos and information at the end tell readers all about Hundertwasser and his ideas, and having experienced the brilliance of his vision in picture book form, they will be well and truly open to them. Unusual and original, it’s a book to build the mind and open eyes.
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