Where: Yazd, Iran
When: 1999
Photographer: Alexandra Avakian
“Marco Polo called it the ‘good and noble’ city of Yazd, an ancient town where desert architects learned to cool buildings and even make ice by harnessing the wind. A 14th-century mosque still dominates Yazd’s oldest quarter.”
—From "Iran: Testing the Waters of Reform," July 1999, National Geographic magazine