The Genius of the Place
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15-Jul-2024
Geoffrey Bawa (1919-2003) is widely regarded as one of South Asia’s most important architects of the 20th century - the equivalent of Frank Lloyd Wright in America, Luis Barragán in Mexico or Oscar Niemeyer in Brazil.
Despite many challenges throughout the years - the restrictions of building materials in post-war Sri Lanka, a thirty year Civil War that fractured the country, opposition from environmental and religious groups to one of his projects, and a series of strokes that left him paralyzed - Bawa prevailed, creating a body of work that is legendary in scale, scope and ambition.
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