Monumental - Architecture of the Millennia

The iridescent play of light through Gothic tracery windows. Skyscrapers gleaming in chrome. The stirring simplicity of a Cistercian abbey. The worn steps of a Mayan pyramid. Church vaults reaching for the sky. Indian temples rich in detailed reliefs. Buildings move us, protect us, and give us places for prayer and devotion, for political debate and for artistic expression. Over the course of the millennia, humankind has created lasting architectural masterpieces, stone witnesses of epochs and rulers, of times and mores.