Constructing Community. The First Goetheanum in Photos and Documents

The exhibition begins with a photograph of the ruins after the fire in 1922 and ends with the design sketches of the project that had been initially conceived beginning in 1911–and then ultimately failed—in Munich and afterwards in 1913 was transferred to Dornach. No longer planned at the centre of the city but rather at the edge of a village there was a change in gestalt. The exhibition intentionally presents the chronology in reverse: a building that no longer exists is portrayed at the beginning; one, that doesn’t exist yet at the end. Travelling backwards everything has its ‘right’ place in the succession: first the plans, then the workers, followed by the mediatisation through photography, the building process and finally the end of the building.