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- ISBN 9781780679136
- Weight: 780g
- Dimensions: 210 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Sep 2016
- Publisher: BIS
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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This book answers some important questions about Geoffrey Bawa, Sri Lanka’s pre-eminent architect, and his legacy. A sizeable introductionto Bawa’s world, life, education and work is reviewed by eminent Bawa scholar, David Robson. This precedes a site-by-site tour of 45 of his buildings scatterd throughout Sri Lanka, Many are considered 'pilgrimage sites' by up-and-coming architects, designers and lay people interested in his extraordinary and enduring talent. Insightful texts, contemporary and archive photographs and a plethora of drawings illustrate the individual buildings that range from private dwellings to public buildings, schools and hotels. Each is representative of Bawa’s pioneering work on tropical modernism. The book ends with a brief section on buildings that have been transformed, lost or are at risk for one reason or another
David Robson is an architect, academic and writer who had a personal
friendship with Geoffrey Bawa. He is Bawa’s official biographer, having
published three books — BAWA: The Complete Works (2003), Beyond Bawa
(2005) and Bawa: The Sri Lankan Gardens (2009). He is also the author of
Anjalendran: An Architect of Sri Lanka (2011) and wrote the texts for The
Architectural Heritage of Sri Lanka (2015), a historical portfolio of many
of the island’s architectural treasures that features scores of measured
drawings from Anjalendran’s studio. During a long and illustrious career,
David has contributed to many academic journals and books.
Sebastian Posingis spent much of his childhood in Sri Lanka and India
and gained a degree in anthropology from the University of Canterbury
in the UK before turning to his first love as an architectural photographer.
He contributed the photographs for The New Sri Lankan House (2015),
a showcase of the island’s latest residential architecture, as well as some
of the photos for Sri Lanka — The Island from Above (2015). His clients have
included the Four Seasons hotel group, Waldorf Astoria and Conrad Hotels
& Resorts. His work has also appeared in Der Spiegel, New York Times,
Washington Post, Financial Times, Geo Magazine, International Herald
Tribune, CondE Nast Traveller and Vanity Fair.
