After the First Goetheanum was destroyed by arson on New Year's Eve, 1922, Steiner designed a building to replace the original. This building, now known as the Second Goetheanum or Goetheanum, was wholly built of cast concrete.
Keywords: Switzerland, Solothurn, Gesamtkunstwerk, Anthroposophical Society, ceremonial and/or religious structures, institutional buildings, performing arts structures.
Style/Period
1920s (1920 - 1929)
Source
Pehnt, W. & Dix, T (1991). Rudolf Steiner: Goetheanum, Dornach. Berlin: Ernst & Sohn. p.48.
