01-11-2012, 06:00 PM
ARCHITECT SEMINAR ON GEOFFREY BAWA
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INTRODUCTION
Geoffrey Manning Bawa
Born in 1919
In 1938 Geoffrey went to Cambridge to read English and later studied Law in London.
worked for some time in a Colombo law firm.
Soon tired from the legal profession
1948 he came to a temporary halt in Italy where, seduced by its Renaissance gardens
He returned to Ceylon where he bought Lunuganga.
Wanted to make Lunuganga an Italian garden but laid bare his lack of technical knowledge
PRACTICE
Geoffrey Bawa started in the firm of Edwards Reid and Begg.
His fellow partners from 1959 to 1967 were Jimmy Nilgiria and Valentine Gunesekera.
The Danish architect Ulrik Plesner joined the practice in 1959 and worked as a close collaborator with Bawa until the end of 1966.
After 1967 Bawa’s sole partner was Dr. K. Poologasundram who acted as engineer and office manager until the partnership was dissolved in 1989.
In 1990 Bawa founded ‘Geoffrey Bawa Associates’.
Channa Daswatte acted as his principal associate from 1993 until 1998.
PHILOSOPHY
Highly personal in his approach, evoking the pleasures of the senses that go hand in hand with the climate, landscape, and culture of ancient Ceylon(Present day Sri Lanka).
Brings together an appreciation of the Western humanist tradition in architecture
with needs and lifestyles of his own country.
The principal force behind TROPICAL MODERNISM.
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INTRODUCTION
Geoffrey Manning Bawa
Born in 1919
In 1938 Geoffrey went to Cambridge to read English and later studied Law in London.
worked for some time in a Colombo law firm.
Soon tired from the legal profession
1948 he came to a temporary halt in Italy where, seduced by its Renaissance gardens
He returned to Ceylon where he bought Lunuganga.
Wanted to make Lunuganga an Italian garden but laid bare his lack of technical knowledge
PRACTICE
Geoffrey Bawa started in the firm of Edwards Reid and Begg.
His fellow partners from 1959 to 1967 were Jimmy Nilgiria and Valentine Gunesekera.
The Danish architect Ulrik Plesner joined the practice in 1959 and worked as a close collaborator with Bawa until the end of 1966.
After 1967 Bawa’s sole partner was Dr. K. Poologasundram who acted as engineer and office manager until the partnership was dissolved in 1989.
In 1990 Bawa founded ‘Geoffrey Bawa Associates’.
Channa Daswatte acted as his principal associate from 1993 until 1998.
PHILOSOPHY
Highly personal in his approach, evoking the pleasures of the senses that go hand in hand with the climate, landscape, and culture of ancient Ceylon(Present day Sri Lanka).
Brings together an appreciation of the Western humanist tradition in architecture
with needs and lifestyles of his own country.
The principal force behind TROPICAL MODERNISM.