Even the interior images offer glimpses of the scenery outside, their large open doors and glass windows letting sunlight fill the space. A plethora of imagery by Sebastian Posingis invites the reader in, reflecting the major characteristic of Bawa’s work: landscape and building becoming one. In Search of Bawa aims to be inclusive, avoiding jargon and arcane theorising. The last part of the book incorporates an appendix with a list of Bawa’s buildings that have been either demolished or compromised by alterations. Robson states that the book can be used as a traveller’s handbook, though this is not its primary intention. The monograph contains more than 40 of Bawa’s built works, cataloged by district of Sri Lanka and ordered along imagined routes.įor example, the projects in the city of Colombo are ordered in a clockwise circuit, starting from Bawa’s former office. In Search of Bawa: Master Architect of Sri Lanka is dedicated to Bawa’s still-extant projects. More than 15 years after his death, Robson – an architect and a personal friend of Bawa’s – followed the suggestion of the German photographer Sebastian Posingis to gather and organise a monograph of his works. Who was editor of Architectural Review maga.īawa was one the most prolific and influential Sri Lankan architect of his generation. Books (Concept Media, Singapore) appeared in early. Geoffrey Bawa, architect in Sri Lanka is the focus of.
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