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Geoffrey Bawa (1919-2003) is Sri Lanka’s foremost architect, and often considered a founding father of “tropical modernism.” When it comes to resorts, in particular, it’s hard to exaggerate his importance. He took elements of vernacular architecture—such as overhanging pitched roofs—and combined them with modernist architecture—an absence of decorative elements combined with austere geometric forms.

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ELLE DECOR India on Instagram: "75 years of history and an exemplary entity of architecture born out of the genius of Geoffrey Bawa, walk with us through Lunuganga Garden Estate. For many years it remained a mythical place as Bawa disallowed anyone other than his closest friends into its charmed boundaries.   Our guest editor for the latest issue, Channa Daswatte @channadas walks ELLE DECOR India through the many turns and rooms of Lunuganga. He reveals, “One of my favourite rooms in the house is the one with a long thin corridor of glass, with one of the older beds that Bawa used in the early part of his occupation at Lunuganga. For me it is a really beautiful piece of architecture as well, because you begin to see his modernist perspectives — the exposed concrete, and all of that married Geoffrey Bawa Architecture, Bawa Architecture, Dreamy Architecture, Geoffrey Bawa, Garden Estate, Old Beds, Exposed Concrete, The Genius, Design Language

ELLE DECOR India on Instagram: "75 years of history and an exemplary entity of architecture born out of the genius of Geoffrey Bawa, walk with us through Lunuganga Garden Estate. For many years it remained a mythical place as Bawa disallowed anyone other than his closest friends into its charmed boundaries. Our guest editor for the latest issue, Channa Daswatte @channadas walks ELLE DECOR India through the many turns and rooms of Lunuganga. He reveals, “One of my favourite rooms in the…

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Much of Geoffrey Bawa’s design is about the interplay between interior space and exterior setting. But ethnic tensions in Sri Lanka and, later, the eruption of violence meant that the architect’s house in the capital increasingly took on the air of a small fortress, as if keeping the warring world at bay

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