The other day I was wondering how comes that before some of the architectural marvels took over oneself complete lifetime, and today we build just huge blocks that fuck the sky in a couple of years.
We have forgotten what it is to put a brick of a construction we'll never see (I guess educating your children is a little bit like that, but even then, we can see most results).
I was looking at Maya culture, Fuck, their whole history carved in their temples, their cosmology, their knowledge.
Notredame took almost 200 years (and it's not the one that took most).
Some of those things are pure fucking marvelous, now we have just concrete and iron (and that mostly in US, in most places iron isn't even used).
Makes you feel weird about everything. The only example I can see today is the "sagrada familia" in Barcelona.