76. About the Photographs of the Construction

I would like to take the liberty, my dear friends, of saying a few words to you today about our Dornach building. I would like to begin my introduction by saying a few things that may help to correct misunderstandings that are linked to this Dornach building, which is what so many things within our movement want to assert. It is not the case that the building as it now stands on this Swiss hill in Dornach was originally there. Perhaps most of you know that the original intention was that the building should be erected in Munich, and a plot of land has already been acquired in Munich. The idea was that the building there in Munich should be surrounded by a number of houses that were to be inhabited by members who wanted to live there, so that it was actually only necessary at that time to build a building with interior architecture. The exterior should be unpretentious, if possible, because it was not effective on the outside, it should be framed by houses, and what came into consideration for us was a corresponding expression of our aspirations in an architectural way through interior architecture.