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Geoffrey Bawa
The Complete Works
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This book is ideal for readers interested in architecture, especially in the fusion of vernacular and modern styles. It will appeal to professionals, students, and enthusiasts of South Asian arts and culture seeking an authoritative visual and textual resource on Geoffrey Bawa's influential work.
Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa fused local construction traditions with modern forms and sensibility to create harmonious and pleasurable buildings that have become legendary in the region and influential around the world. This volume is a documentation and appreciation of the man and his work.
'A comprehensive and superbly produced volume ... Robson's fine monograph will long remain the essential record of a significant body of work' The Architects' Journal
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Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa and the buildings he created have become legendary in the region and influential around the world. Few architects achieved his harmonious fusion of local building traditions with modern forms and sensibility.
Bawa's early works were houses that artfully married vernacular styles and responses to climate and site with a modern architectural vocabulary. Soon, his talents were applied on a larger scale, to the Sri Lanka parliament, a number of carefully situated and designed hotels, schools, offices, and other public buildings. The summation of his oeuvre is symbolised by his own two residences—a house in Colombo and a residential complex in Lunuganga—whose evolution eloquently reflects Bawa's career and personality.
This ambitious publication is a comprehensive documentation and appreciation of Geoffrey Bawa and his work. It includes a rich portfolio of his most important works, including some rarely published projects. An exhaustive reference section includes a complete chronology.
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ISBN: 9780500341872
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 25 November 2002
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Illustration: with over 500 illustrations, 250 in colour
Audience: Professional and scholarly
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Width: 260.0mm
Height: 280.0mm
Weight: 1900g
Pages: 278
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David Robson is the authority on Bawa, with whom he was close friends for over thirty years. He is Professor of Architecture at the University of Brighton and Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore.
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