This year there are 100 years since Rudolf Steiner died. His relevance, for us, didn't diminish. He was a brilliant non-architect who built better than many architects. How to explain it ?
His elan vital and creative force manifested itself in various fields, but maybe "the Queen of the Arts" (as once architecture used to be called) had a special meaning and attraction for him. He was searching for unity, for wholeness. And his architecture expresses this quest poignantly.
It has been said that many of the great buildings of the past were erected on the foundation of a "shared symbolic order" the kind religion provided. But where is this "shared symbolic order" now? Very weakened, if at all…
