Laurie Baker

Author : Gautam Bhatia

Paperback

Published : Saturday 14 October 2000

ISBN : 9780140154603

Price : €21.00

Description

The Definitive Biography of Laurie Baker Laurie Baker has worked in India for over forty years and is renowned for being one of the very few architects in the world to have designed and built buildings as diverse as fishermens huts, computer institutes, auditoriums, film studios and tourist centres. His distinctive brand of architecture, usually moulded around local building traditions (especially those of Kerela, his adopted home state in south India), is instantly identifiable and has, unsurprisingly, revolutionized traditional concepts of architecture in India. Bakers architecture is responsive, uses local materials and lays stress on low-cost design. This biograpy of Laurie Baker, like his work, is direct, simple and comprehensive; further embellished with sketches, plans, photographs and some of Bakers own writings, the book offers the professional architect view of the life, methods and thoughts of an unorthodox genius.

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