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Architecture between culture nature Dualism Looking into works of Geoffrey Bawa: Critical Analysis of Kandalama Hotel Sri Lanka
Fig: 11 Drawing, section through the clift, Kandalama Hotel Sri
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Kandalama Hotel in Sri Lanka is one of the very prominent projects of Geoffrey Bawa. While critically analyzing his design, I will be arguing on Bawa’s designs having a subtle and romantic relationship between culture and nature, which is an overall productive approach to modern architecture during 20th century. Bawa always thought about humans as a part of nature. Unlike other architects his designs never differentiated human culture and actions from nature, but actually he integrated the human actions and culture within the natural environment thus creating ating a sense of awareness of a sustainable approach, without degrading the natural ecosystem.
Fig 11: 11David Robson, Drawing, section through the cliff, Kandalama Hotel Sri Lanka, 1991-1994 1991 c. geoffreybawa.com, accessed May 5, 2020, https://geoffreybawa.com/archive
