Ancient Buildings

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“With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.”
—Bible: Hebrew Job, 12:12.

“The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity’s language, technology, and buildings are an extension of its constructive faculties, the desert alone is an extension of its capacity for absence, the ideal schema of humanity’s disappearance.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)