Wittgenstein’s House, Vienna
Is anyone surprised?
The Wittgenstein House, or Wittgenstein’s sister’s house. Designed by Ludwig Wittgenstein. So ugly that the Nazis used it as a stables during World War II. Wittgenstein himself mostly lived in Cambridge or in a variety of small shacks. He believed the best way to clean a floor was to cover it in wet tea leaves, wait for them to dry, and then sweep them out the door. Wittgenstein was literally the most awesome person who lived in the last century: Professional architect, bad mathematician, medical inventor, soldier, creator of the truth table, bastard heir to Bertrand Russell, would-be Stalinist, patron to Rilke, inventor of half of all contemporary philosophy, half-inventor of the other half of all contemporary philosophy, and second-smartest man of that span.
