YINJISPACE use media professional’s unique perspective,try to explore the essence of life behind the design works.
© 粤ICP备19077098号
YINJISPACE use media professional’s unique perspective,try to explore the essence of life behind the design works.
© 粤ICP备19077098号
A late bloomer, bawa was born in Sri Lanka in 1919, studied at Cambridge Law School in England as a young man, and should have become, like his father, a lawyer to be admired. However, at the age of 27, he embarked on a one-and-a-half-year journey around the world alone, and suddenly had the desire to create his own architecture. Therefore, in his late 20s, he went to Britain to study architecture again. At the age of 38 (1957) bawa finally had his first work, from which he embarked on a belated career in architecture until his death in 2003 at the age of 84.
Bawa's reputation as a master rests entirely on the exemplary nature and continuity of his work. He focuses on Sri Lanka's unique environment and architecture as a whole, fully explores the potential of local resources, and emphasizes the integrity of the environment. Even today, his concepts and designs are second to none. Over 40 years of practice, Bawa has successfully created a series of revolutionary architectural prototypes for his motherland Sri Lanka and influenced the development of architecture throughout Asia, so he is also known as the "Father of Architecture in Asia". As Yeo Suan, a Malaysian architect, said: "For many of us Asian architects, Jeffrey Bawa will always hold a special place in our hearts as our first hero and our first guru."
