76. About the Photographs of the Construction

GA 246/1918-06-30/p010 ·1918-06-30 · English High

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.

On the basis of this artistic and historical introduction, which I cannot give in more detail, I would now like to develop the building concept for you in a few words. You will see that this building idea differs from other building ideas in that it is much more concrete, not as abstract as other buildings. With other building ideas, you will not be able to avoid realizing that you are dealing with an architectural idea and a decorative half-idea or secondary idea. That is to say, it is based on an architectural [illegible words in shorthand], yes, decorative secondary thoughts. This abstractness of a building should be overcome, especially in our case. The building should be cast from a single thought [illegible word in shorthand], should therefore not be thought, but looked at, should really result from the spiritual world as a revelation; that it is [therefore] not thought, but looked at. This, of course, led to doing things very differently afterwards than we do with older, contemporary building ideas.

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