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Heidegger's hut

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2001

Adam Sharr
Affiliation:
Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3NB, United Kingdom; adam_sharr@hotmail.com, unwins@cardiff.ac.uk
Simon Unwin
Affiliation:
Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3NB, United Kingdom; adam_sharr@hotmail.com, unwins@cardiff.ac.uk

Abstract

Martin Heidegger's ‘Building, Dwelling, Thinking’ is well known to many architects. But comparatively little is known about the building in southern Germany's Black Forest where this influential work was almost certainly written. This essay describes how Heidegger's Hut came to be built and how it was configured and occupied. No plan of this little building has ever before been published. In the intellectual alignments that the hut displays, particularly at a small scale, it records physically many of the priorities that Heidegger wrote about.

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© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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