ABSTRACT
Heidegger stayed regularly at a hut built for him in 1922 above Todtnauberg in
the Black Forest mountains, retreating there when he could. As he grew older,
he philosophised about these circumstances: the forest walk became important
to his writing and he gave at least one lecture on skiing. He claimed that
thinking was analogous to following a forest path, naming one volume of
essays Holzwege after forest paths, and another Wegmarken, waymarks, after
the signs that help walkers stick to a trail. With this in mind, I invite you on a
mountain walk to introduce some aspects of Heidegger’s thinking concerning
architecture, and some of its difficulties.
