The intense relationship between philosopher Martin Heidegger and his cabin in the Black Forest: the first substantial account of "die Htte" and its influence on Heidegger's life and work. "This is the most thorough architectural 'crit' of a hut ever set down, the justification for which is that the hut was the setting in which Martin Heidegger wrote phenomenological texts that became touchstones for late-twentieth-century architectural theory." --...