DORHACH – HOME OF THE GRAIL CASTLE A common conception in Western culture is that the Quest for the Holy Grail began sometime in the 1stMillennium AD, in either (or both) Britain and Northern Europe. The seeds were sown a lot earlier than that, following the denouement of Ancient Atlantis, about 8000BC, in fact. The […]
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Many Mansions: Steiner Educational Architecture
BEFORE THE PORTAL Steiner Educational Architecture A threshold Experience “Between this world and the next, there are The Doors” sang Jim Morrison of rock group, The Doors. Whatever his drug-dimmed moral proclivities, Morrison was both a musical genius and a modern-day seer – in the latter case, albeit a reluctant one. He confirmed, as few […]
Many Mansions: The Art and Mathematics of Architecture
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 […]
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: Materials in Architecture
A SAGA OF SAND, SAWDUST & CEMENT It was a lovely Spring day when we drove over the hill and surveyed the new-rural/residential development, Carlingford-on-Sea, spread blow us. New homes, in every state of erection were swarmed over by a veritable army of bricklayers, carpet layers and pipelayers. It wasn’t easy to find the building […]
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 […]