These illustrations for a Landscape Architecture course reflected on a three-week trip through parts of Egypt with my father.
Among other things, the illustrations pointed out how sharply the Nile cuts through the desert, where the line between life and death can seemingly be measured in grains of sand.
Views from the Great Pyramid included four vantage points: looking south from halfway up the pyramid; looking southwest across to the second pyramid at sunrise; looking southeast from the top, 500 feet down to people on the roadway; and looking south over the edge of the Nile valley from the top.
Conclusion: A good architecture is one that life can cling to. Otherwise, it's just a monument to the dead ... or a really neat pile of rocks.