Ludwig Wittgenstein, Architect

Wijdeveld, Paul

ISBN 10: 050034129X / ISBN 13: 9780500341292

Verlag: Thames and Hudson, 1994

Beschreibung

Hardcover 4to with a dust jacket in very good condition. Dust jacket has some minor signs of wear and has fading to the spine but is still in overall very good condition. Black cloth boards with some minor signs of wear but still in very good condition. 240 pages profusely illustrated in colour and black and white. Internal pages clean with text and images still bright. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 036016

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Architect

Verlag: Thames and Hudson

Erscheinungsdatum: 1994

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe:

The power of Ludwig Wittgenstein's genius, which had such a significant effect upon the course of Western philosophy, meant that for him nothing was trivial or of secondary importance. Between 1926 and 1928, in partnership with the architect Paul Engelmann, he designed and built a house in Vienna - the Kundmanngasse - for his sister Margaret Stonborough. Although Engelmann was an experienced architect and a former pupil of Adolf Loos, Wittgenstein dominated the project and is credited with the design: which is described as an elegant and austere example of early Modernism. "Ludwig Wittgenstein: Architect" describes the philosopher's temporary assumption of the role of architect, his ideas on aesthetics in general and architecture in particular, and his quest for "functionalism, perfectionism and elegance as a consequence of truthfulness in thinking and acting". Wittgenstein's hitherto unexplored friendship with Loos and his pupils is also considered. The text is illustrated with original sketches and drawings by Wittgenstein, virtually all surviving perspectives and plans, and the drawings and watercolours of the interior and original furnishing by another of Wittgenstein's sisters, Hermine. It is accompanied further by many commissioned photographs. Paul Wijdeveld has also published an annotated Dutch translation of Wittgenstein's "Remarks on Colour".