From left: A sitting room at No. 11, Geoffrey Bawa's former home in Colombo; Bawa at work in 1996. From the outside, the Colombo house of Geoffrey Bawa, the late Sri Lankan architect and pioneer of ...

New Award from the Geoffrey Bawa Trust The Geoffrey Bawa Trust and its partners are excited to announce the launch of a new award for excellence in design for ecological coexistence. The Geoffrey Bawa ...

A lawyer, a traveller, and an architect—Geoffrey Bawa’s life is as textured as the art he has created across the sub-continent. In Sri Lanka, where he was born and where he returned after travelling ...

Geoffrey Bawa is well known in his native Sri Lanka and in design circles, but wider fame has eluded the architect who died in 2003 at the age of 84. Part of the reason is that the building style Bawa ...

The Indian Ocean island of Sri Lanka is renowned for its white sand beaches and vast wildlife-filled jungles, though it has an incredibly rich cultural heritage, too. I had endless opportunity for ...