Sri Lanka’s most famous architect Geoffrey Bawa trained in the UK before returning home in the 1950s, where his optimistic designs chimed with the hopes of a newly independent country Since his ...

the Geoffrey Bawa Trust Fund, the National Crafts Council, and the Sri Lanka Handicrafts Board. Key figures at the meeting included Chief of Staff and Deputy Secretary General of Parliament Chaminda ...

From the outside, the Colombo house of Geoffrey ... designed in Sri Lanka from 1948 until 1998, he made certain that they were built in harmony with the surrounding landscape. Bawa studied law ...

they returned to Sri Lanka to get married. For a venue, they chose Lunuganga, the former country residence of the Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa. A leader of the Tropical Modernism movement ...

The High Commission of Sri Lanka, the Government of India, the Ministry of Culture in India, and the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi with the Geoffrey Bawa Trust Colombo, present Geoffrey ...

The Life and Work of Geoffrey Bawa, which premieres in Sri Lanka on 15 July 2023. Filmed entirely on location in December 2022 – many of the scenes shot with a drone giving Bawa’s projects a ...

The great Geoffrey Bawa’s Lunuganga Estate includes the architect’s 12-acre private country residence in Bentota, on Sri Lanka’s breezy southern coast. Since the architect’s death in 2003, this has ...

We reach Geoffrey ... Bawa is renowned as the father of the tropical modernist movement. He created a new vernacular style of architecture, suited to the hot, humid climate of Sri Lanka (and ...