What does anthroposophy have to do with architecture?

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The human individual is a complex being with a soul life consisting of thinking, feeling and willing. There is also a guide – the ego – which leads one through life.  In addition, one also has a physical body, a man-made environment and the world at large.

As clearly as we walk upright, talk and think, we influence our milieu. We do this through the words and ideas which we share with others, but also through the way we dress, and the way we design our homes, workplaces and spaces for social life. Everyone influences his or her surroundings through the selection of color, form, pattern and material.

My role as an architect is to help individuals, families and businesses discover the material elements corresponding to what they want to create for their home life, professional work and recreation: walls, floors, ceilings, foundations, additions, garden constructions, and more. These elements give people protection and support for existence.

Architecture is a common human engagement in that it is the investigation of possibilities and the realisation of a selection of these possibilities in time and space; it is here that the connection with anthroposophy exists. To create a building, an interior, or a garden is a kind of knowing, that is, both a process and an activity that is vital for life.