Photos of architecture around the world and spanning some 4,500 years of human history, taken in April 1996. 

Mosque in excavated Luxor Temple complex, Luxor, Egypt                                                                                                                      Vista above Positano, Italy

Santorini, Greece                                                                                                                                                                                            Dome of Mohammed Ali Mosque, Cairo

Interior of Mohammed Ali Mosque                          Grand Canal, Venice, from Rialto Bridge

Ko Phi Phi Le, Thailand                                                                                                                                        Mohammed Ali Mosque, Cairo

Khmer Temple, Eastern Thailand                                                    Po Lin Monastery, Lantau Island, Hong Kong

Great Pyramids at Giza, Egypt                                                                                                              Celsus Library, Ephesus, Turkey

US Capitol Dome, Washington, D.C.                                               Mohammed Ali Dome, Cairo, Egypt                                                   Dome of St. Peter's, Rome

Mohammed Ali Mosque,  Cairo                            The Pantheon, Rome                                                     Sultan Hassan Mosque, The Citadel, Cairo

Santorini, Greece                                                                                                                        Hypostile Hall, Karnak Temple,  Luxor, Egypt           Residence Atrium, Pompeii, Italy

 Manhattan Island, June 2001.  Tradition and modernity need not be mortal enemies;  for in the end, both will lose - as will humanity itself.