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On Father’s Day, a grandson’s tribute to his grandfather, Laurie Baker | AD India | Lifestyle | Film Laurie Baker, Architectural Writing, Earth Architecture, Brick Arch, Brick Architecture, Vernacular Architecture, Green Architecture, Indian Architecture, Brick Building

Gandhian architect Laurie Baker passed away in 2007, but his legacy is unique in the history of Indian architecture. In an interview with his grandson, filmmaker and photographer Vineet Radhakrishnan, AD discovers insights into his grandfather's life.

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Padma Shri awardee and celebrated architect Laurie Baker melded his English quaker sensibilities with Indian aesthetics in his buildings. Now, almost a decade after he passed away, Bengaluru-based filmmaker Vineet Radhakrishnan takes us through his grandfather’s journey in a documentary titled Uncommon Sense: The Life & Architecture of Laurie Baker, through archives and interviews with clients, architects, government officials, and family. Excerpts from an interview:

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Lawrence Wilfred #Laurie Baker (2 March 1917 – 1 April 2007) was a #British-born #Indian #architect, renowned for his initiatives in cost-effective energy-efficient architecture and designs that maximized space, ventilation and light and maintained an uncluttered yet striking #aesthetic sensibility. His early schooling was at #KingEdwardsGrammarSchool. Baker studied #architecture at Birbmingham institute of art and Design, #Birmingham, and graduated in 1937, aged 20

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