Architecture and the Ascetic Ideal

As previously proposed, building-construction is fundamentally an expression of the human need for shelter, affording protection from adverse parts of Nature.  Architecture is thus the locus of one of the profound errors of human history--the interpretation of Artifactuality as Super-Naturality.  That error typically occurs when a concept of 'Heaven' is generated by the extrapolation from the manufactured independence of a shelter from the rest of Nature, to an uncreated realm of complete separation from all of Nature.  Likewise, from Kant's 'groundwork', there emerges a realm that is 'free' from the laws of Nature.  However, perhaps unwittingly embodying a correction to that error is any church, the most 'sacred' dimension of which is neither its steeple nor what the steeple presumably points to, but the sanctuary that it offers within, which political power usually tends to respect.  In contrast, Nietzsche, in Human, All Too Human #15, likens the Inner/Outer relation to the Above/Below one, without recognizing that the former supplants the latter upon the destruction of Ptolemaic Cosmology.  Likewise, while he derives the 'Ascetic Ideal' from a Will to Nothingness, an alternative genealogy of it is architectural, i. e. from a Will to Shelter.