The vanishing stone houses of Dhofar

To enter a traditional Jaballi house in the mountains of Dhofar Governorate, you must bow your head. It is not a matter of low ceilings but a ritual, a daily act of respect toward the home. For Prof Dr Duško Kuzović, a Serbian architect who spent nearly two years documenting these vanishing stone dwellings, that gesture captures what the buildings quietly encode: a sophisticated, centuries-old design system on the edge of disappearing.