In 1960, when Ena de Silva and her husband Osmund were casting about for an architect to build their family home on a small plot they’d just bought in Colombo, Sri Lanka, her friend, the landscaper ...

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 ...

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Geoffrey Bawa, 83, an architect who gained a worldwide reputation by blending traditional Buddhist motifs from his native Sri Lanka with a more contemporary international style, died Tuesday at ...

Geoffrey Bawa’s Sri Lanka The architect’s creative genius resonates everywhere you go in the island nation Updated - January 08, 2018 at 02:17 PM. Open plan: Geoffrey Bawa is ...

How to explore the work of Sri Lanka’s most influential architect. On the centenary of the birth of Geoffrey Bawa, Emma Love takes a tour of his forest-engulfed hotel and the dreamy landscape of ...

The last glimpse we had was in 2003, at the Barefoot Gallery. He was in a wheelchair. He had come to see an exhibition of paintings and sketches done by an English artist living in Sri Lanka. The ...

The fashion designer on how he assembled a dream trip to Sri Lanka around one of his architectural heroes, Geoffrey Bawa—and returned home full of fresh ideas. By Rebecca Misner August 27, 2024 ...

COLOMBO -- Geoffrey Bawa singlehandedly made Sri Lanka a country for buildings that live and breathe. The father of "tropical modernism" -- a school o.

Geoffrey Bawa, Sri Lankan architect COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Geoffrey Bawa, Sri Lanka’s most prolific and influential architect, died Tuesday. He was 84. Mr. Bawa was known for blending traditional… ...