B is for Bawa

Sri Lankan Architect (Geoffrey)Bawa was a recepient of the Aga Khan award for Lifetime Achievement in 2002. Highly personal in his approach his work tends to evoke the pleasures of the senses that go hand in hand with the climate and landscape. The intense devotion he brings to composing his architecture in an intimate relationship with nature is characterized by his attention to landscape and vegetation, the crucial setting for his architecture. His work is often described as the harmonious and pleasurable fusion of local building traditions with modern forms and sensibility.



Bawa's work has served as a model for contemporary tropical architecture.