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Bawa-Genius of the Place
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The welcome retrospective at the Deutsches Architektur Museum charts the career of the great Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa (1919-2003). It traces a path from a mannered 'Tropical Modernism' to a highly personal synthesis of Modernist principles with the indigenous culture, materials and environmental techniques of Sri Lanka. A whole floor is dedicated to the house and garden Bawa created for himself at Lunuganga over a period of nearly half a century: it was while working here in the early 1950s that Bawa found his vocation, abandoning his career as a barrister and enrolling at the Architectural Association in London at the age of 35.
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