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Who is he?
Bawa was born in 1919 and came late to architecture, only qualifying in 1957 at the age of thirty-eight, but he soon established himself as Sri Lankas most prolific and inventive architect, laying down a canon of prototypes for buildings in a tropical Asian context.
Although best known for his private houses and hotels, his portfolio also included schools and universities, factories and offices, public buildings and social buildings as well as the new Sri Lanka Parliament. His architectural career spanned forty years and was ended in 1998 by a stroke which left him paralysed. He died in 2003.
The Sri Lankan Architect Geoffrey Bawa is now regarded as having been one of the most important and influential Asian architects of the twentieth century.
His international standing was finally confirmed in 2001 when he received the special chairmans award in the eighth cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, becoming only the third architect and the first non-Moslem to be so honoured since the awards inception.
Ink drawings produced for Geoffrey Bawa The Complete Works Exhibition and Monograph, whilst working with Geoffrey Bawa in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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