Glossary

The First Goetheanum in Anthroposophy

The First Goetheanum was the original wooden building Rudolf Steiner raised on a hill at Dornach, near Basel, to house the Anthroposophical Society and its performances of eurythmy and the...

The Eurythmy Figures in Anthroposophy

The Eurythmy Figures are a series of carved wooden boards, cut to the silhouette of a single sound-gesture and painted in three harmonizing colours, which Rudolf Steiner devised at the...

The Seven Planetary Columns in Anthroposophy

The Seven Planetary Columns are the seven carved column-capitals of the first Goetheanum, named Saturn through Venus, each form unfolding out of the one before it as the nave runs...

Organic Architecture in Anthroposophy

Organic Architecture is Rudolf Steiner's approach to building in which the whole structure is conceived as a single living organism. Walls, columns and domes are not assembled from interchangeable right-angled...

Eurythmy as Visible Speech in Anthroposophy

Eurythmy as visible speech is the art Rudolf Steiner developed from 1912, in which the sounds of language are lifted out of the larynx and made visible as movement. A...

Eurythmy as Visible Singing in Anthroposophy

Eurythmy as visible singing is the form of eurythmy that turns music into movement. Rudolf Steiner taught it in a 1924 Dornach course, naming it tone eurythmy. Where speech eurythmy...