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Geoffrey Bawa (Geoffrey Manning Bawa) was born on 23 July, 1919 in Colombo, British Ceylon, is a Sri Lankan architect (1919–2003). Discover Geoffrey Bawa's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?

Popular As Geoffrey Manning Bawa
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Age 83 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 23 July, 1919
Birthday 23 July
Birthplace Colombo, British Ceylon
Date of death 27 May, 2003
Died Place Colombo, Sri Lanka
Nationality Sri Lanka

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1919

Deshamanya Geoffrey Manning Bawa, (23 July 1919 – 27 May 2003) was a Sri Lankan architect.

He was among the most influential Asian architects of his generation.

Geoffrey Bawa was born in Colombo on 23 July 1919, the youngest of two sons to Major Benjamin Bawa, Sri Lankan lawyer, who was of part European parentage, and Bertha Marianne née Schrader, a Burgher of mixed Sinhalese, German and Scottish descent.

His older brother, Bevis, became a landscape architect.

1938

Bawa was educated at Royal College, Colombo after which he studied English and Law, 1938, at St Catharine's College, Cambridge gaining a BA (English Literature Tripos) and went on to study law at Middle Temple, London, becoming a barrister in 1944.

Returning to Ceylon after World War II, he worked for a Colombo law firm.

1946

After the death of his mother, he left the profession and soon left in 1946 to travel for two years, going to the Far East, across the United States, and finally to Europe and almost settling in Italy.

By the time he was 28 years old, he had spent a third of his life away from Sri Lanka.

1948

During his time in Italy, he planned to buy a villa and settle down, but that did not happen, and by 1948 he had returned to Sri Lanka.

Bawa bought an abandoned rubber estate on the south-west coast of the island between Colombo and Galle at Lunuganga, planning to create an Italian garden from a tropical wilderness.

However, he soon found that his ideas were compromised by his lack of technical knowledge.

1951

In 1951, he was apprenticed to H. H. Reid, the sole surviving partner of the Colombo architectural practice Edwards, Reid and Begg.

1952

In 1952 Reid died, but Bawa still aspired to a career in architecture, so he returned to England.

1956

After spending a year at Cambridge, he enrolled as a student at the Architectural Association in London, where he earned a Diploma in Architecture by 1956 and in the following year he became an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

1957

In 1957, at the age of 38 he returned to Sri Lanka as a qualified architect to take over what was left of Reid's practice.

1958

Returning to Ceylon, he became a partner of Messrs. Edwards, Reid and Begg, Colombo in 1958.

1959

In 1959, Danish architect Ulrik Plesner joined the firm, and the two designed many buildings together.

Bawa was influenced by colonial and traditional Ceylonese architecture, and the role of water in it, but rejected both the idea of regionalism and the imposition of preconceived forms onto a site.

1960

Bawa became an Associate of the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects in 1960.

An ensuing close association with a coterie of like-minded artists and designers, including Ena de Silva, Barbara Sansoni and Laki Senanayake, produced a new awareness of indigenous materials and crafts, leading to a post-colonial renaissance of culture.

1967

Plesner left the island in 1967.

1979

In 1979, President J. R. Jayewardene invited Bawa to design Sri Lanka's new Parliament building at Kotte.

1982

The project was completed in 1982 with the help of a firm of Japanese contractors, Mitsui.

In 1982, Bawa established the Geoffrey Bawa Trust with the aim of furthering the fields of architecture, fine arts and environmental studies.

1990

In the early 1990s, Bawa suffered a series of strokes that left him ill.

2003

Bawa died on 27 May 2003 at the age of 83.

Geoffrey Bawa influenced a generation of architects in Sri Lanka after him, but his legacy was also embraced in Asia and around the world.

Geoffrey Bawa's work was mainly in Sri Lanka, but included several other countries as well: nine times in India, three times in Indonesia, twice in Mauritius and once in Fiji, and Singapore.

His works include houses, hotels, schools, clubs, offices and government buildings, most notably the Sri Lankan Parliament Building.

Today, the Gallery Café on Paradise Road in Colombo is located in Bawa's former office building.