Haus Wittgenstein in Vienna was commissioned by Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein in November 1925 and finished by December 1928. Paul Engelmann was the initial architect, and the text also names Jacques Groag. Ludwig Wittgenstein co-designed it and became, in Engelmann's view, the author of the final product. The infobox lists only Engelmann.
The style is Modernist, with Engelmann's design following Adolf Loos in three rectangular blocks. Wittgenstein specified every detail. Each pulley-operated metal window screen weighs about 330 pounds (150 kg), and a metal curtain lowers into the floor.
Her son Thomas Stonborough owned it until 1968, when it was sold to a developer for demolition. A campaign led by Bernhard Leitner saved it, and it became a national monument in 1971. The cultural department of the Bulgarian Embassy has used it since 1975. The article gives no hours.
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