![]() ![]() His role in the design of the house was concerned chiefly with the design of the windows, doors, window-locks and radiators. Wittgenstein’s participation in the project was relatively limited, his biographer Ray Monk maintains (though Engelmann himself, from professional modesty or perhaps ambivalence about the final product, claimed the collaboration was more extensive): It was in part to draw him back into “the world” that his sister Margarete (Gretl) invited him to join the architect Paul Engelmann in designing her new house, a rigorous Modernist structure that, much changed, now houses the Bulgarian Embassy. ![]() ![]() He took up gardening instead, in a monastic community on the outskirts of Vienna, where he camped out for a few months in a toolshed. Ludwig Wittgenstein, as everyone knows, abandoned philosophy after publishing his celebrated Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus in 1921. ![]() What was it about handles-door-handles, axe-handles, the handles of pitchers and vases-that transfixed thinkers in Vienna and Berlin during the early decades of the twentieth century, echoing earlier considerations of handles in America and ancient Greece? A door handle in the house Ludwig Wittgenstein designed with architect Paul Engelmann, 1972 ![]()
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