Hagia Sophia, Aachen cathedral, and the Manhattan Project are presented as examples of collective work driven by the desire to bring heaven to earth or create eternal peace.
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Hagia Sophia, Aachen cathedral, and the Manhattan Project are presented as examples of collective work driven by the desire to bring heaven to earth or create eternal peace.
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Al-Andalus is presented as wealthy, cosmopolitan, innovative, beautiful, and open because Jews, Christians, and Muslims worked together there.
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"lack that vision the last thing this is most important is you have vision when you have religious purpose every you do is careful..."
"...you can see the amount of attention and care put into architecture back there because it's about bringing heaven to earth creating heaven on..."
"first Roman emperor the first holy Roman emperor he was buried he's buried inside this cathedral but no one's saying this is a tomb..."
"the pyramids and they built the pyramids to build the nuclear bomb same concept where they believe that they're creating eternal peace on earth..."
"...can still go to Spain and see a lot of this architecture, okay?"
"...and it's very powerful, okay? So this is Al -Andalus, the architecture. This is some of their buildings. Spain is one of the most..."
"...uh dirt floors became the norm stone houses disappeared from our architecture not architectural from uh anthro how do you call those people who..."
"...study intelligence of animals and plants. We also don't study ancient architecture and civilizations, so if you go to these ancient sites like Gopalitepe,..."
"...we know? Look at Washington, D.C., okay? Guess what, guys? The architecture, the city design, it's all secret society stuff, okay? This is a..."
"...still lived is common to almost all these ancient cultures whose architecture we have just looked at this practice has no clear explanation except..."
"they express themselves through their expression of religion through art architecture music dance and it's an amazing achievement um because these pillars okay they're..."
"...that's really important for us to understand is that with our architecture there's mythology in place okay and here we assume the mythology is..."
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