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Mautern, Austria Christoph Mayrhofer Architect Apparently, even in a place like Mautern, Austria, just 37 miles west of Vienna and a few hundred yards from the Danube, there are dreary, poorly constructed homes. Designing something special in a zone of such drab single-family houses and apartment complexes was the dilemma facing Austrian architect Christoph Mayrhofer. His clients, two high-school teachers, had originally been looking for what Mayrhofer calls a “catalogue” house—much like the partially prefabricated build-to-order houses offered by homebuilders in the U.S.—but couldn’t find anything that struck them. Their requirements were simple: Enough room for the husband’s 4,000 books
Apparently, even in a place like Mautern, Austria, just 37 miles west of Vienna and a few hundred yards from the Danube, there are dreary, poorly constructed homes.