Name: House for Dr. Bartholomeusz (Geoffrey Bawa's Office/ The Architect's Office)
Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka
Architect: Geoffrey Bawa
Client: Edwards, Ried, and Begg
Date: 1961-1963 (20th Century)
Building Usage: Office building/ Complex & Private Residence
"The office had originally been planned as a doctor's house, but by the time the foundations had grown to ground level he had decided to stay where he was and Bawa was able to buy the property and to convert it into an office. Thus, the original spaces were transformed to suit the architect's convenience: kitchen into accounts office, quantity surveying in the pantry, the three upstairs bedrooms into one main drawing room - lying between the two courtyards - into the main meeting room and Bawa's office.
The general progression of spaces, first through the entrance courtyard then through the central court and finally into the great space of the meeting room and the architect's office, establishes a mood which can easily be felt and which would then set the temper of acceptance or rejection - a great advantage for an architectural practice."
Taylor, B.B. (1995, pg 114)
References
- Taylor, Brian Brace, 1995, Geoffrey Bawa, Revised edn, Thames and Hudson, Italy
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