Laurie Baker Life , Works & Writings

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Offers the professional architect as well as the layman a fascinating view of the life, methods and thoughts of Laurie Baker.

Laurie Baker worked in India for over forty years and was renowned for being one of the very few architects in the world to have designed and built buildings as diverse as fishermen’s huts, private homes, hostels, churches, technical institutes, auditoriums, film studios and tourist centres. His distinctive brand of architecture, usually moulded around local building traditions (especially those of Kerala, his adopted home state in South India), is instantly identifiable and has, unsurprisingly, revolutionized traditional concepts of architecture in India. Baker’s architecture uses local materials and lays stress on low-cost design.

This biography of Laurie Baker, like his work, is direct, simple and comprehensive; further embellished with sketches, plans, photographs and some of Baker’s own writings.

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Author

Gautam Bhatia

Year of Publication

1994

Pages

313

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