Architect

Geoffrey Bawa

Geoffrey Bawa was a Sri Lankan architect whose hotels, houses, gardens, and institutional works helped define tropical modernism across South Asia.

1919-2003

Sri Lankan

Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka

Housing Landscape Garden Hotel Hospitality Building Campus Education Building Sacred Space

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Works

Bureaus

Books

Places

Cities

Bentota2 Colombo1 Galle1 Horagolla1 Kandalama1 Matara1

Countries

Sri Lanka10

Sources

Wikipedia Wikidata

Focus

hospitality building · hotel · house

Concrete Timber Stone

Bureaus

Bureau

Geoffrey Bawa

studio · Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka

Role: founder

Years: 2003

Founder relationship

Selected works

Lunuganga

1948-1998 · Bentota, Southern Province, Sri Lanka

Country house estate

Geoffrey Bawa

Cinnamon Bentota Beach

1967 · Bentota, Southern Province, Sri Lanka

Hotel

Geoffrey Bawa

University of Ruhuna

1978-1984 · Matara, Southern Province, Sri Lanka

University campus

Geoffrey Bawa

Seema Malaka

1979 · Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka

Buddhist temple

Geoffrey Bawa

Sunethra Bandaranaike House

1980s · Horagolla, Western Province, Sri Lanka

Country house

Geoffrey Bawa

Parliament of Sri Lanka

1982 · Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, Western Province, Sri Lanka

Government building

Geoffrey Bawa

Heritance Kandalama

1991 · Kandalama, Central Province, Sri Lanka

Hotel

Geoffrey Bawa

Blue Water Hotel

1997 · Wadduwa, Western Province, Sri Lanka

Hotel

Geoffrey Bawa

Jetwing Lighthouse

1997 · Galle, Southern Province, Sri Lanka

Hotel

Geoffrey Bawa

Pradeep Jayewardene House

1997 · Mirissa, Southern Province, Sri Lanka

House

Geoffrey Bawa