Renovations.

Following discussions today with Simon, I feel like I could perhaps combine together my interests in nature and architecture and put them together into one idea. I've always loved architecture, and when he suggested it, my mind immediately jumped to the ancient world, especially Egyptian architecture. When they built temples, pyramids and tombs, they built with eternity in mind. Similarly across other cultures in the ancient world such as the Greeks, Romans, Aztecs etc. These landmarks which we identify with those eras have to some extent stood the test of time, however they aren't perfect. Slowly they have eroded, and have had to be restored.

To me, this says something about a mindset these people had that was common across the world back then and to some extent it is now as well. There is and has been a common human arrogance which causes us to think we are going to be able to defy nature and build things which will last forever when that simply isn't true, as I have already said in previous posts.

An example of this can be found in the pyramids. Egyptologisits believe that the original structure of the pyramid stood 480.6 feet tall however with erosion, the current height of the pyramid is 455.4 feet tall. That's enough of my rambling for now, but that's my current idea. I'm just wondering how I could possibly get that message of a lack of immortality across through architecture.