The First wooden Goetheanum I was burned by the Nazis, and Rudolph Steiner decided that the materials of the Second Goetheanum should be fireproof reinforced concrete -structure.
This choice of reinforced concrete should not be the main criterion for the characterization of Steiners architectural work.
Steiners architecture is in the first place organic architecture.
Steiner worked with sculptors and architects, including Swiss architect Paul Bay who was involved in carving the pillars of the first Goetheanum and designed a number of the buildings around the Goetheanum.
In the course of 1923, Steiner designed a building to replace the original.
This building, now known as the Second Goetheanum, was built wholly of cast concrete. Begun in 1924, the building was not completed until 1928, after the architect's death.
It represents a pioneering use of visible concrete in architecture and has been granted protected status as a Swiss national monument.
B.t.w, one art critic Michael Brennan has called the building a "true masterpiece of 20th-century expressionist architecture".
Form reflects the living organism, form follows vital processes and functions and form respects the spirituality as the origin of life.
Rudolph Steiner considered the Goetheanum as a temple, the house of the spirit.
Curvilinearity in the characteristic of organic forms, rectilinearity - all those forms were meant to force spirituality to emerge in people who would not otherwise open up.
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