This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

Almost without fail, an architectural draft starts with one straight line, and then another,

and another, a succession of clean orderly lines until eventually, a building emerges.

And it makes sense that straight lines form the core of our built environment.

They're cost-efficient, materials like wood and steel and pipes come in straight linear units,

although that's a bit of a topology. But it's certainly easier to calculate structural loads

unrectile linear surfaces. Straight lines are logical, predictable.

And they are completely devoid of humanity.

So says producer Louisa Beck.

Actually, it's not my argument. It's this guy's.

The straight line is godless and immoral.

The straight line is not a creative line, but an imitating line, a line line,

a colored line.

This is 1000 sassar, Friedensreich, Regentag, Dunkebund, Hundertwasser.

In German, that means multi-talented piece filled rainy day dark colored 100 waters.

It's a name he gave himself.

Yeah, no kidding.

Which makes sense because for Hundertwasser, radical self-expression was everything.

Even tended on to buildings are subject to sensation.

Such regulations are characteristic of prisoners, cages and stables.

This is from a speech Hundertwasser gave in 1983 at the Architectural Association in London.

He was known for giving talks, wearing mismatched, wild colored socks and wacky hats,

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