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Bawa as “Regionalist” Architect of 20th century Geoffrey Bawa is one of the most prominent regionalist architect around the late 20 th century. The way he transformed South East Asia with his very dominant style of architecture which is the beginning of Tropical Modernism. “Looking into his early life he studied Law and English from St Catharine's College, Cambridge in 1938. He went to London to be a Barrister in 1944. In 1946, the death of his mother is one of the turning points of his life, after which he travelled for two years, from United States to Italy and finally settling in Srilanka.” (7)
Fig: 2 Geoffrey Bawa at his home on 33rd Lane, Photographed by David Robson in 1989 7. David Robson and Channa Daswatte, “Serendib Serendipity: The Architecture of Geoffrey Bawa” AA Files 35(1998):26 8. Channa Daswatte, “ Biography” Geoffrey Bawa Trust , accessed 24 May , 2020 https://geoffreybawa.com/biography Fig 2: 2David Robson, Geoffrey Bawa at his home on 33rd Lane, 1989, c. From David Robson, Geoffrey Bawa: the master architect of Sri Lanka: Photograph (STIR publisher, September 17, 2019), accessed, May 10, 2020 .https://www.stirworld.com/think-opinions-geoffrey-bawa-the-master-architectof-sri-lanka
