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  • Interior of a typical old Cairo house in Mamluk architectural style.  Sunlight throws a shadow of a lamp in the foreground against the qibla wall beyond.  The chair and water jars indicate that the house is somewhat cared for, if not actually lived in.
    Traditional Mamluk house interior in..airo
  • Front view of a small stilt house, showing access ladder and clusters of tools and equipment hanging in the shade underneath.  The woven straw matting wall of a larger house next door is shown.
    Cambodia_Tonle_Sap_KHM200602-206.jpg
  • Front view of a stilt house with access ladder standing in the middle of a planted field off the rural road leading to Tonle Sap lake.
    Cambodia_Tonle_Sap_KHM200602-202.jpg
  • Tonle Sap, near Khampon Khleang : fishing village on stilts.  Wooden ladders separate two to three levels of the houses.  A quirky version of a high rise dwelling.
    Cambodia_Tonle_Sap_KHM200602-199.jpg
  • New polished wood door with shiny brass fittings, fitted into the arched entrance of  an old stone and brick house in Florence.  Shiny new apartment buzzer plate on the door jamb, with new drain pipes alongside.
    Florence-streetscape-old-new-ITA2010...jpg
  • Sharp shadow projected on doorway of an old but still occupied house in Ayvalik.  Date on metal tympanum over the door says 1878.  A young woman in jeans opens the door with a key, while two other women walk by.
    Ayvalik TUR199710-4.jpg
  • Row houses in Ayvalik, newly built on traditional design.  Angular projecting upper storeys, curved iron protective bars on lower windows, arched doorways colored orange and purple.
    Ayvalik TUR199710-35a.jpg
  • Sharp shadow partly covers an old but occupied house in Ayvalik, Turkey.  Bicyclist passes doorway with a newish mailbox.
    Ayvalik TUR199710-24.jpg
  • Refurbished old Greek house on a narrow street in Ayvalik.  Freshly painted, window boxes, and flourishing decorative plants suggest occupancy.
    Ayvalik TUR199710-02-9.jpg
  • Tympanum over the doorway of a house in Ayvalik showing date 1886.
    Ayvalik TUR199710-02-16.jpg
  • Private brick built stone trimmed palazzo in Venice with canal on three sides of it.  Balcony with potted plants, windows with wooden shutters and Venetian blinds, wooden bumpers at corners.  a hump backed bridge visible on each canal, lined with more palaces, homes, and apartments.  Three dinghies visible moored at right, a motor launch moored at the left.
    Venetian palazzo ITA200403-7-27.jpg
  • Detail of a house facade in Ayvalik showing pilaster topped by a re-used Roman Corinthian capital.  Layers of old paint in green, yellow, purple, orange, and blue, in a multicolored but shabby composition.  Recent-seeming house number on a metal plaque suggests it is occupied.
    Ayvalik TUR199710-17.jpg
  • Lavenham townscapes and architecture: distinctive crooked house leans against its neighbor.
    Lavenham townscape ENG200701-0024.jpg
  • Lavenham townscapes and architecture: Little Hall, now a museum, was a house built in the 14th century, enlarged in the 16th century, and eventually housed several families.  Restored in the 1920s by the Gayer-Anderson twin brothers, in 1975 it was given to the Suffolk Preservation Trust.  See history and program at http://www.littlehall.org.uk/littlehall/index.htm.  It is the oldest house in Lavenham.
    Lavenham townscape ENG200701-0031.jpg
  • Lavenham architecture : half timbered house, painted orange, with carved wooden door and leaded windows.  Facade from the street, including sidewalk of multicolored stones.
    Lavenham townscape ENG200701-0004.jpg
  • Lavenham townscapes and Tudor period architecture.  igh Street entrance facade of the Swan Inn, seen from a sharp angle alongside the structure to emphasize the second storey overhang.
    Lavenham townscape ENG200701-0037.jpg
  • Lavenham townscapes and architecture
    Lavenham townscape ENG200701-0033.jpg
  • Hanoi suburbs:  new house and apartment buildings follow traditional urban style of architecture, a tall and narrow 4-5 floor structure one or two rooms wide.  Uncollected trash in the street.
    Hanoi_suburb_apartments_VTN200602-31...jpg
  • The facade of the house, built of stone with walls coated in painted plaster, forms a desolate and somehow compelling graphic geometry in dark red, yellow, and cream colors.  The interior seems ruined though the exterior has presence.
    Ayvalik TUR199710-01-12.jpg
  • Old Newari carved wooden residence still occupied; laundry and bedding hang in its colonnade..
    old-house-Kathmandu-NPL200110-1-35.jpg
  • Three quarter view of the house built by Jim Thompson where he lived in Bangkok until his mysterious death in Malaysia.  Peaked roof, wooden panel walls in traditional Thai style.  It is a peaceful oasis within the crowded noise of the city.
    Jim_Thompson_house_THA200603_347).jpg
  • Old and new buildings on a street in the Garden City neighborhood of Cairo.  In the foreground, a leaky 1950s era plain concrete structure (apartment building?)  with sliding glass windows still taped up; beyond a carved and balconied 19th century apartment building.  The contrast is apparent.
    19th and 20th centuries in Garden Ci..airo
  • Point of view looking up at a pair of windows and a balcony, lined with potted plants, in a medieval/Renaissance dwelling in Trogir.  The entire old town section is designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
    Trogir-Renaissance-dwelling--HRV2006...jpg
  • Interior rooms of the Bayt el Razzaz, an abandoned Mamluk palace in urban Cairo.  A door stands ajar, showing sunlight streaming into the adjoining room.  In the 1970s, the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) funded explorations, and in 1995 UNESCO funded a status report: http://www.unesco.org/archi2000/pdf/morton.pdf
    Interior of the Bayt el Razzaz, an a..lace
  • Intense sunlight and a festoon of shadows from electric wiring characterize the facade of a stone house.  Barred window, painted wooden door, and a sense that the house is being kept if not lived in.
    Ayvalik TUR199710-1-1.jpg
  • Derelict Ayvalik house showing projecting upper floor walls deteriorating, showing lath, plaster, glass, all brokenand decaying.  Lower story is finished so that one might think it occupied.
    Ayvalik TUR199710-02-21.jpg
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