Bawa, who died in 2003, believed in bringing the outdoors in, blurring the line between these two realms. In the more than 40 buildings he designed in Sri Lanka from 1948 until 1998, he made ...

Geoffrey Bawa was born on July 23, 1919, in what was the British colony of Ceylon. His father was a lawyer whose ancestors were British and Sri Lankan Muslim, a community that considers itself an ...

A lawyer, a traveller, and an architect—Geoffrey Bawa’s life is as textured as the art he has created across the sub-continent. In Sri Lanka, where he was born and where he returned after travelling ...