Byzantine - Discussion

For my discussion of the Byzantine time period, I looked to Yo's and Rachael's blog posts. 
 
Something that I haven’t considered before now is a topic that Yo brought up in his post. It’s that of sustainability. I hadn’t considered it because I didn’t think any sustainable aspects of these time periods were intentional. In fact, they were. They did need these, what we would call sustainable, aspects of design because they are simply a more natural way to do things. Yo’s comment that we can learn from great techniques from history on how to be sustainable was really astute.

Rachael talks about the Hagia Sophia as an example of Byzantine architecture. She describes how it was meant to out-do other structures. What an amazing building, right? I definitely have it on my list of “to see” buildings in my lifetime.

If you would like to read their blog posts you can find them here:
http://www.history1ys.blogspot.com/2014/02/byzantine.html
http://www.history1rap.blogspot.com/2014/02/chapter-4-byzantine.html