Heidegger's Hut

Heidegger's writings on dwelling and place became significant in the second half of the 20th century not only for philosophers and philosophy students but also for a number of architects and architectural writers. There is an essential connection in Heidegger's work where a mutual interaction occurs between place (the hut) and the mode of thinking, and Sharr is aware that this connection may have opened up some intellectual paths for Heidegger that are no longer traceable. In this sense, Heidegger's hut in Todtnauberg is an event that is as much philosophical as it is architectural.

This book is the most meticulous architectural "critique" of a hut ever undertaken; it also comprehensively reveals that it was the place where Heidegger wrote the phenomenological texts that became a touchstone for late 20th-century architectural theory. However, Sharr specifically states that he carried out his work as an architect, not as a philosopher.

This book invites architects to think guided by philosophy and philosophers to think guided by architecture.

Or rather, this work is for anyone who wishes to think about thought, space, place, and a hut.