Around 180 buildings, including many private homes, were erected around the famous Goetheanum over the last 100 years. The form language they share is typical of the Goethean or sculptural-organic building style. The buildings not only share the same architectural features, with one another and with the Goetheanum, their orientation and location – perched on a hill above the valley of the river Birs – also reflect the original concept of an "Anthroposophists' Colony" where members of the Anthrop