Hatshepsut's hidden contirbution.

 Hatshepsut's mortuary complex is quite astonishing. It utilizes a very precise colonnade structure almost a thousand years before the Parthenon. Hatshepsut's mortuary complex is cleverly designed to carry your eye directly to the entrance. It is like she is telling us "look, I'm here, come in and see my accomplishments." The strong colonnade structure became so grand in appearance that other pharaohs adopted its grandeur as well. Mortuary complexes were built to commemorate the Pharaoh to which they are dedicated to, however, Hatshepsut shared this dedication with Amon, the sun god. Amon is the highest god of which Pharaohs associate themselves with. Pharaohs make this association because they are the chosen vessel to which Amon inhabits and leads his people through. Hatshepsut's association with Amon is prevalent in the way she lines her entrance with  male interpretations of herself as a male Pharaoh. Hatshepsuts goal with making herself a male figure could be simply to imply to her followers that even though she is a female, Amon is still the dominant presence within her. These male statue interpretations along with the colonnade structure makes a very strong statement. It is a double declaration of how strong Hatshepsut viewed herself as a vessel of Amon. The staircase also adds to this declaration in the sense that it's a heavy granite staircase leading directly into the entrance of Hatshepsut's mortuary temple. Hatshepsut's temple was the closest Egyptian architecture to come to classic architecture. Yet could we look at her mortuary temple as a template for the classic architecture that came afterwards?

 President Truman's library may be past the classical architecture period but something about its small colonnade usage gives a demanding view. Even though Truman's library is no where near the scale of Hatshepsut mortuary temple, they share a few similar elements. Truman's library uses the same directing staircase used in Hatshepsut's temple. Although the Truman's library staircase is a lot less demanding of people who enter it, it still pulls attention to the small colonnade that surrounds the library's entrance. The Truman library's colonnade is also on a smaller scale than that of Hatshepsut but it still demands a great deal of your attention. The more modern hanging portraits on the side of the colonnade also are similar to how Hatshepsut lined her entrance way. The Truman library shares three elements from Hatshepsut mortuary temple but in a more modern and less grandeur of scale. The Truman library uses these elements in a specific way to directly look at the entrance of the library. It makes the same statement of a passed away individual of importance; "I'm here, come look at my accomplishments". Even though the Truman library makes a smaller demand than that of Hatshepsut's temple, it is a good example of how the past influences the present, along with how power in ancient times was displayed and how it made such an impact that we today still use derivatives of the ideas.