Jean-Pierre Houdin
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Jean-Pierre Houdin
Architect and Pyramid Construction Theorist
Jean-Pierre Houdin is a French architect best known for propogating a particular theory about the construction of the Egyptian pyramids - basically that they were built from the inside out - that many believe will soon be proven true.
He was born in Paris, France in 1951, and raised in Abidjan, Africa, where his father worked as a civil engineer. He studied architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, then after graduation set up as an independent architect in 1976. It was his father who, in 1999, first began to develop the idea that the pyramids were constructed internally rather than externally, using ramps. Houdin joined his father in attempting to prove this theory, using his expertise in architecture and 3D graphics.
Research at the Great Pyramid of Giza - which has turned up one of the corner notches that they hypothesised was used for turning stone blocks - has thus far appeared to prove their theory, although some experts still write it off as being over-complex. It is hoped that new research in the next year or two, using infrared photography of the pyramid cooling in the evening, will turn up irrefutable evidence of an internal spiral ramp that was used to raise the stone blocks.
