As a former colleague of Imre Makovecz, and an architect whose thinking is likewise shaped by anthroposophy, I believe in shared workshop practice: a way to get to know the universal elements of Architecture more deeply and to experience its true sources. Everyone can draw, or can learn to draw. In design work the free hand is one of the architect's essential tools — if the hand is not free, neither is the soul, nor the thinking. One has to make friends with the white sheet of paper, because it is like a vast underwater world. On the surface, in the plane of the paper, you cannot see what lives there; but look a little deeper and an immense world emerges. It is a process.

We will grow more at home with drawing tools, and through them learn to set things down on paper. We will meet many built works of architecture, and come to know, discuss and debate what lies within them and what they say to us today. We will look outward to the world, and inward as well, toward the realm of the soul. We will also visit buildings in and around Budapest, so that we do not merely see them in photographs but gain our own experience of a building's outer and inner spaces.

I invite you into inner and outer landscapes where elements build into one another — landscapes with continuity, direction and spirit. This course is for those looking for new paths in Architecture, who are open, and who wish to experience more deeply the connections between the natural world around them and their own inner world.

Programme: 1. The Architecture we are in: getting to know the Waldorf kindergarten building, with practice 2. Architecture as landscape within the landscape we live in: outside and inside, darkness and light 3. Architecture in the mirror of the human I 4. Building visit: the grave of Imre Makovecz, on-site practice 5. The plant world and its connections with architecture 6. Architecture as creator of community: the self and the world 7. The spatiality of Architecture: the section 8. Building visit: the Stephaneum, Piliscsaba — on-site practice 9. Movement in architecture 10. Architecture as creator of balance: congruent forms, the diagonal 11. The borderlands of Architecture: constructing the spiral of creation 12. Building visit around Budapest — on-site practice 13. The dramaturgy of Architecture: the new life of light 14. More liveable Architecture 15. Architecture in the mirror of universal thinking 16. Building visit around Budapest — on-site practice 17. Architecture as a sacred act of culture 18. The healing processes of architecture 19. The possible future of Architecture 20. Building visit in Budapest — on-site practice

Winter break: the course resumes in January and continues every two weeks until the end of June 2027. The exact 2027 dates will be announced later.

Registration is required. Please write for details and to sign up.