Architecture as a synthesis of the arts
(Book)

Introduction / Christian Thal-Jantzen --

pt. 1. And the temple is the human being: An art and architecture that reveal the underlying wholeness of creation: complementing the modern tendency to analyse and dissect ; The task of modern art and architecture: as show by a historical study of temple architecture and the accompanying development of the human soul ; Outline proposals for the architecture of a model anthroposophical community at Dornach --

pt. 2. Ways to a new style of architecture: True artistic creation: the common origin of the architectural forms in the Goetheanum and of the Greek acanthus motif ; Art as the creation of organs through which the gods speak to us: the first Goetheanum as an example of such an organ with its windows showing the paths to the gods ; A new conception of architecture: the astral body as a fully trained geometrician ; The aesthetic laws of form: consciously penetrating the forms and colours of the spiritual sea of the cosmos as a precondition for true art ; The creative world of colour: the challenge for the artist is to express through the soul all that lives in his idea of the world --

Appendix: The evolution of architecture at the turn of each new millennium (two fragments in note form) ; The rebuilding of the Goetheanum: the design concept of the proposed new building at Dornach.