Celebrating Traditional Built Environments and their Inhabitants Joe Aranha is a professor at the Huckabee College of Architecture, Texas Tech University, USA. His research focuses on continuity and change in traditional architecture. He has been a recipient of separate Fulbright Fellowships to Zimbabwe and Ethiopia and has participated in three Fulbright Specialist assignments in India, Mexico and Bali, Indonesia.
This photo exhibit by Joe Aranha presents a visual essay celebrating the diversity of traditional environments and peoples he has encountered researching and documenting vernacular architecture around the world. This selection of his photographs spans locations ranging from Peru to China. They also include traditional buildings and people from Ethiopia, Yemen, Turkey Morocco, Ladakh, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Bali, Indonesia.