GEOMETRY TO COSMOMETRY IN THE ART OF ARCHITECTURE Establishing Rudolf Steiner schools has the same spiritual significance today as creating the network of cathedrals did for Europe centuries ago. However, these cathedrae, or ‘seats’, were most often sited and constructed with a depth of esoteric knowledge almost unknown in our materialistic age – unknown except […]
BLOCK: G12 Math in Architecture
Many Mansions: Building in Education
ARCHITECTURE – BUILDING IN EDUCATION As well as considering structures for pupils/students to be educated in, we spare a page or two to describe how they are educated about the First Art. In Class 1, we usually have a great favorite, Cubby Building. This is not a mere afternoon time filler for three weeks, but […]
Many Mansions: The Brace & Web in Architecture
A SOCK IN A SACRED PLACE! A remarkable thing about the great Medieval Gothic cathedrals is that they were erected without plans! As owner builders we would be hard-pressed to construct a shed without written plans of some kind. The master-builders (in the true sense of the word) seemed to intuit if a bu8ilding element […]
Many Mansions: Form in Architecture
LET’S HAVE AN OPERA HOUSE! The principle of form must now be considered, and our quest should start with the wisdom of the past. Our Time Tour takes us first to ancient Stonehenge (and other Neolithic sites), representing so dramatically on plan the symbol of the cosmos, the circle. Need we look further? A circular […]
Many Mansions: The Humble House
THE SPIRITUAL HOUSE The Humble Domicile as Mirror of the Heavens “What do we really want from our house?” I asked by wife as we regarded our recant building site. “I think our needs are, after a rodent-race life in the city, for a, well, a sanctuary” she replied. “Hmm, a kind of temple even […]
Many Mansions: Corridors in Architecture
CORRIDORS OF POWER There is a great Dragon sleeping in the bosom of the Eastern Hemisphere, his sinuous spine can be seen variously projecting above the ground form Lhasa to Lakes Entrance. Or that’s how the Chinese see it – they call it the Feng Shui. In our more enlightened (?) Western science we know […]