Geoffrey Bawa the complete works

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Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa and the buildings he created have become legendary in the region and influential around the world. Few architects achieved his harmonious fusion of local building traditions with modern forms and sensibility

Bawa's early works were houses that artfully married vernacular styles and responses to climate and site with a modern architectural vocabulary. Soon his talents were applied on a larger scale, to the Sri Lanka parliament, a number of carefully situated and designed hotels, schools, offices and other public buildings. The summation of his oeuvre is symbolized by his own two residences - a house in Colombo and a residential complex in Lunuganga - whose evolution eloquently reflect Bawa's career and personality.

This ambitious publication is a comprehensive documentation and appreciation of Geoffrey Bawa and his work and includes a rich portfolio of his most important works, including some rarely published projects. An exhaustive reference section includes a complete chronology.

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Library Journal Review

Robson (architecture, Univ. of Brighton) here writes definitively about important South Asian architect Geoffrey Bawa. A Sri Lankan trained in London, Bawa developed a personal synthesis of traditional local forms and modernist plans. His site-specific, sustainable, and energy-conscious designs include courtyard and tower houses of local materials, schools, factories, offices, hotels, a university campus, and his country's New Parliament buildings. Robson outlines Sri Lankan history and architecture, then traces Bawa's aristocratic early life. In chronological segments, he analyzes 49 buildings, illustrating each with drawings and photographs (500 total, 250 in color). Bawa, who is now seriously ill, recently received a special Aga Khan Award for Architecture. This fine book is only the third about Bawa and appears to be the most comprehensive. Recommended for large architectural and South Asian collections.-David R. Conn, Surrey P.L., B.C. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.