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 […]
ESOTERIC: Architecture
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: Architecture of Man
ARCHITECTURE OF MAN ANATOMY OF STRUCTURE Brighter architects throughout the ages have conceded that all structural principles have their origin in the perfection that is the human physical body. Computer science applied to anatomy has revealed that it is impossible to improve on a single aspect of the engineering principles that make up human structure. […]
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 […]
Many Mansions: Spirit of the Temple
SPIRIT OF THE TEMPLE The following is a report on an assignment given to the author by architect David Oppenheim. Here he was required to provide metaphysical insights into this most physical of human endeavors, building a house. The first section is geographical, or geomantic to be more precise – and the second structural. We […]