76. About the Photographs of the Construction

GA 246/1918-06-30/p016 ·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.

The shape of the columns now offers something quite different to contemporary architecture. As you know, the previous architecture had a repetition of capital motifs. Here there is no such repetition, but each column has its own capitals, so that the shapes of the capitals are in a continuous development of form. Only the right-hand column is always the same as the left-hand column - in relation to the only axis of symmetry that the building has - but a subsequent column is never the same as the previous column; instead, the motif of a column always develops from a previous column. And with this building, you have this development in front of you, i.e. a wooden architecture that actually lies on the border between sculpture and architecture and which brings the overall development of humanity in a natural way.

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