76. About the Photographs of the Construction
GA 246/1918-06-30/p008
·1918-06-30
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English
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Record: listeners' notes. Written from listeners' notes, summaries, or memory rather than a shorthand transcript. The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word. Evidence: «Nach zum Teil bruchstückhaften Mitschriften» (From transcripts that are in part fragmentary). The publisher's description of the volume, as mirrored on AnthroWiki (GA 246), which also speaks of "fragmentarischen Hörernotizen und Vortragszusammenfassungen". The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.
Now, of course, you need to be familiar with this brief overview of the historical course of the building if you want to properly assess the building as it is intended to stand. It was originally intended to be a mere interior design. Then they [in Dornach] wanted to achieve it quite quickly and had to rethink it. The corresponding architecture, which was initially intended for Munich, had to be rethought for the building so that it could stand freely on a hill, visible on all sides.
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