Diversity their forte: Speakers at Bawa lecture
View(s):Los Angeles-based architects Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena will deliver the 22nd Geoffrey Bawa Memorial Lecture on Thursday, July 24 at 6.30 p.m. at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute in Colombo 7. The annual Memorial Lecture organised by the Geoffrey Bawa Trust commemorates Geoffrey Bawa’s birthday and celebrates impactful architecture from around the world.
The speakers’ architecture firm, Escher GuneWardena Architecture, established in 2015, has projects ranging from custom homes and housing, preservation work of iconic buildings and collaborations with artists, art galleries, and exhibitions around the world. This breadth of experience across diverse projects will bring a multi-disciplinary focus to this year’s much anticipated lecture: Clocks and Clouds.
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Known for their preservation of work by notable twentieth-century architects, the duo will discuss how the principles, philosophies and attitudes that go into making great spaces enhances their own practice. Their restoration works include the Eames House (built in 1949), John Lautner’s Chemosphere (1960), Gregory Ain’s Greene Residence (1962), Paul R. William’s Residence (1952), and the recently completed Lovell Health House by Richard Neutra (1929).
Ravi GuneWardena and Frank Escher
Escher and GuneWardena will also host a workshop for architecture students and young architects titled Historic Preservation / A Role for Contemporary Architects on Friday, July 25 from 5–7 p.m. at the De Saram House in Colombo 07 on how they can explore the architectural histories and social movements that shaped particular projects while also developing work of their own.
In addition to preservation work, Escher and GuneWardena regularly design new houses and commercial projects in the Los Angeles area, including a 100-acre meditation center campus for California’s Sri Lankan community in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. The duo also work on installation and exhibition design for museums around the world. In 2018, Escher and GuneWardena were exhibition designers and curatorial advisors for The Jeweled Isle: Art from Sri Lanka at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Admission to both events is free, but registration is required. For registration and more information, visit: geoffreybawa.com/events.
The Geoffrey Bawa Memorial Lecture and workshop is supported by Miles Young and media partners the Sunday Times, Daily Mirror, Tamil Mirror and Lanka Woman.
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