• ENGLISH GRADUATION - Royal College , Colombo – 1938

• LAW GRADUATION – Middle Temple , London – 1944

• ARCHITECTURE – Architecture Association , London – 1956
• Started Practicing ARCHITECTURE – Sri Lanka – 1958
• Edwards , Reid and Begg AND Geoffrey Bawa Associates
• The Principal Force Behind “ TROPICAL MODERNISM”

Architecture cannot be
totally Explained but must be Experienced. GEOFFREY BAWA
July 1919 – May 2003
PLANTATION HOUSE
•A collection of courtyards, verandahs and loggias
create a heaven of peace and inspiration. 
•Suites are individual and beautifully decorated to
provide a relaxing and memorable environment.

STUDIO
•Set at the edge of a cinnamon plantation 
•high on the hill overlooking the lake to the south
thus giving the privacy.

• A Small House on 25 Acre land with Rubber Plantation transformed into

Italian Inspired Garden with a View of Lake overlooking the Hill
• The Original Bunglow Now Survives with its Coocon of Verandah , Loggias and Courtyards

WORKS OF BAWA PLANTATION HOUSE / GARDEN OF LUNUGANGA (1949 – 1998)

WORKS OF BAWA PLANTATION HOUSE / GARDEN OF LUNUGANGA (1949 – 1998)
• 2 substantial tree grow within house
"houses are inseparable from trees”
• Open-to-sky bathroom with a tree
“we have traditionally lived outdoors”
• Furnished in natural timber, simple white fabric, sturdy wrougt iron lighting fittings.
“A HOUSE IS A GARDEN”
WORKS OF BAWA PLANTATION HOUSE / GARDEN OF LUNUGANGA (1949 – 1998)
• House for a doctor in galle, on a sloping site, with the house
in the upper part of the site, with a corridor leading down
to the dispensary by the roadside.
• The house is modernist & traditional at the same time.
• At the very heart of the house is a planted court, fountain and pool

WORKS OF BAWA
ASH DE SILVA HOUSE (1960)
• Reflection of Mies’s (Courtyard House – 1923) Plan
Layout is Seen in this work

WORKS OF BAWA
ASH DE SILVA HOUSE (1960)
• Elements salvaged from old buildings in Sri Lanka and South India
were artfully incorporated into the evolving composition.Main entrance
to the house
• The final result is an introspective labyrinth of rooms and garden courts
which together create the illusion of limitless space. Words like inside
and outside lose all meaning: here are rooms without roofs and roofs
without walls, all connected by a complex matrix of axes and internal vistas.

WORKS OF BAWA
33rd LANE HOUSE (1960 - 1998)
WORKS OF BAWA
33rd LANE HOUSE (1960 - 1998)
• Very Long approach before the Lobby from the Main Entrance
• The Basic unit of the Hotel is in a Single Noded Corridor
• Linked Open Pavilions
• Planters in the open air lobbies and Hallways blurs the line
Between interior and exterior Space

WORKS OF BAWA
TRITON HOTEL (1979)
WORKS OF BAWA
TRITON HOTEL (1979)
WORKS OF BAWA
BARTHELOMEUSZ HOUSE
WORKS OF BAWA
BARTHELOMEUSZ HOUSE
 • Highly personal in his approach, evoking the pleasures of the senses
that go hand in hand with the climate, landscape, and culture of
ancient Ceylon(Present day Sri Lanka).
• •Brings together an appreciation of the Western humanist tradition
• in architecture with needs and lifestyles of his own country

• RESPECTED THE SITE AND CONTEXT

• BUILDINGS HAD A PLAY OF LIGHT AND
SHADE.
• FLOW OF SPACES
• FUSED VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE
WITH THE MODERN CONCEPTS TO
SATIATE THE NEEDS OF THE URBAN
POPULATION
• USED SALVAGED ARTIFACTS
• ROOF FORMS AS ELEMENTS
• WATERBODY –AN ESSENTIAL PART OF
BAWA’S ARCHITECTURE

PHILOSOPHY
• ENGLISH GRADUATION - Royal College , Colombo – 1938
• LAW GRADUATION – Middle Temple , London – 1944
• ARCHITECTURE – Architecture Association , London – 1956
• Started Practicing ARCHITECTURE – Sri Lanka – 1958
• Edwards , Reid and Begg AND Geoffrey Bawa Associates

WORKS OF BAWA
PLANTATION HOUSE