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Issue 7: The Slate Village Down the Mountains: Pingtung

There are now around 580000 native Taiwanese (the term used in Chinese. In Japan it seems the term “indigenous” is often used) r…

Issue 6: Beckoning Qilous

Just about everyone in Taiwan eats similar food from the countless semi-outdoor dining halls there. The students all line up for newly opene…

Issue 5: The Matsu Islands: Small Windows on the Frontier (Part 2)

The first morning of the new year arrived as I stayed in my room on th…

Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Windows in New Mexico

At age 62 after living between New York City and New Mexico for many years artist Georgia O’Keeffe made rural Northern New Mexico her perman…

Issue 4: The Matsu Islands: Small Windows on the Frontier (Part 1)

The Matsu islands are located in northwest Taiwan about as close to mainland China as you can get. It’s one of the farthest locations …

Issue 3: Where the Pavilions Went : Orchid Island (Part 2)

…esearch Institute website as “Travelling Asia through a Window”). In 2…

Issue 2: The Buried Black Roofs : Orchid Island (Part 1)

…esearch Institute website as “Travelling Asia through a Window“). In 2017 he began working under Huang Sheng-Yuan at Fieldoffice Architects …

Issue 1: Windows Visited by Spirits: Pingdong

…esearch Institute website as “Travelling Asia through a Window”). In 2…

Final Issue: Asia, Traveled through a Window

This will be the final installment of my four-year-long serialization documenting my eight-month-long trip. While I had decided where to go …

Life in the Holy Land: Jerusalem, Israel

I could see land the color of milk out of the airplane window. My journey had started in China moving ever westward from there and I was now…

Rushing Along the Nile: Egypt and the Nile

After walking around Cairo for a few days I took a flight to Aswan Egypt’s southernmost city. From there I followed the Nile River nor…

Facing the Arches: Cairo, Egypt (part 2)

Before Al-Qahirah the city that would become Cairo was created in the 10th century the city of Fustat stood slightly to the south. In this r…

A Combining City: Cairo

I got on a plane in Jordan and flew to Cairo Egypt. It was my first time on the African continent. Though most capitals are busy Cairo seeme…

Sensing Mother Earth: Petra, Jordan

During my trip I saw many ruins in many countries. While these sites stood distant from our modern lives the people who created them must no…

Religion and Cities: Isfahan, Iran

I experienced no small amount of culture shock in Iran as it was the first Islamic country I visited. Many of the people I passed on the str…

Shifted Windows: Masuleh, Iran

There is a small village in the valleys of Iran known as Masuleh that has stood there for over a thousand years. Its tiered homes are built …

Breathing in the Desert: Yazd, Iran

The bus that headed from northern to southern Iran passed once more through alien landscapes created by the desert. It’s as if one mus…

Starting by Surrounding: Takht-e Soleymān, Iran

I took a cheap shared taxi from Zanjan in northwest Iran headed next to the ancient ruins of Takht-e Soleymān. An archeological site centere…

The City Is a Bazaar: Tabriz, Iran

Outside my bus window a new sight to me stretched as far as the eye could see. Smooth mountains that seemed to be striped red and white shar…

“Placing” a Home: East Gilan, Iran, part 2

In Kachalam a village in East Gilan a man agreed to show me around in his car despite it only being our first meeting. As he did I discovere…

“Placing” a Home: East Gilan, Iran (Part 1)

Iran was an unknown land to me before I visited it myself. My vague image of it had been of a desolate desert dotted with ancient remains. A…

Vino Santo in Trentino

Drive a car east from Milan go north through Verona and you will see the largest lake in Italy Lake Garda. Continue running north along the …

Kibber, India : The Hidden Hole (part 2)

It was cold in the morning so high above sea level. But when I walked out to the third-floor terrace at my inn I found it surprisingly warm.…

Kibber, India : The Hidden Hole (part 1)

Climbing even higher past Kinnaur district in North India I passed the treeline to find an outstretched land of nothing but brown rocky moun…

Kinnaur District, North India: The Overhanging Village (Part 3)

I walked back to the home in the small village in order to pick up the pants that had been sewn for me overnight. It seemed that there the m…

Kinnaur District, North India: The Overhanging Village (Part 2)

Many valley-side settlements located 2-3000 meters above sea level can be found in the district of Kinnaur. Busses run daily even here in th…

The Overhanging Village : Kinnaur District, India, Part 1

In the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh is a region inhabited by people known as the Kinnauris. It is a high-elevation region locat…

Floors and Floods: Siem Reap, Part 2

As I dug my bicycle’s tires into the sand they first moved me unsteadily forward until at last they no longer could. I had not yet rea…

Floors and Floods: Siem Reap, Part 1

Siem Reap is one of the cities in Cambodia along with Angkor Wat that is hopping with tourists who come to see the ancient ruins that lie th…

The Red Earthenware Bowl: Eastern Tibet, Ser thar, Part 2

I descended to the center of Larung Gar where it seemed a lecture or assembly had just ended as priests were entering and leaving the buildi…

The Red Earthenware Bowl: Eastern Tibet, Ser thar, Part 1

I boarded a bus in Chengdu the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan and headed toward eastern Tibet. My destination was the Nying…

Memories of a Skylight: Tashqurqan Part 3

Memories of a Skylight: Tashqurqan Part 2

Memories of a Skylight: Tashqurqan, Part 1

A Desert below Sea Level — Turpan, Part 3

A Desert Below Sea Level—Turpan, Part 2

I came across a group of grape-drying huts on a hill just off the settlement. These huts I had seen the day I arrived in Turpan while taking…

A Desert Below Sea Level — Turpan, Part 1

Zhangcun: The Needs of the Underground Part 3

Zhangcun: The Needs of the Underground Part 2

Zhangcun, “needs of underground” Part 1

Houses beyond the Places of Scenic Beauty (2)

Houses beyond the Places of Scenic Beauty (1)

Shanghai, Bars of Iron Sprouting from Windows (2)

Shanghai, Bars of Iron Sprouting from Windows (1)