Geoffrey Bawa Awards for Architecture

July, 27, 2016

Launch of the fourth cycle 2016/2017

The fourth cycle of the Geoffrey Bawa Awards for excellence in Architecture was launched Saturday (23), at the relocated and reconstructed Ena De Silva House adjoining the premises of the historic Geoffrey Bawa Gardens in Lunuganga, Bentota.

This year’s Award commemorates the 97th birth anniversary of the illustrious architect. Three cycles of the Awards were held in 2010/11, 2007/2008 and 2013/2014.

Applications are now open to contenders for the fourth cycle of the Awards. Submissions must be on the prescribed forms available at the Geoffrey Bawa Trust Office from 23 July 2016 on weekdays from 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. The closing date for entries is 1 November 2016.

The Awards were conceptualised in 2007 to recognise and reward outstanding examples of contemporary Sri Lankan architecture, and celebrate the winners and their work. The first three cycles proved immensely popular and generated wide interest, which prompted many talented architects to vie for the award. The Trustees are confident that this interest will generate an even larger number of entrees this year.

The Geoffrey Bawa awards are open to all architects working in Sri Lanka and aim to confer a special status of recognition on the winners. They encourage submission of the broadest possible architectural designs and have no fixed criteria as to the size, type, nature or location of the structures.

Projects built in Sri Lanka during the ten-year period between 23 July 2006 and 23 July 2016 and used and occupied for not less than nine months, are eligible for submission. Entries not placed in the previous awards cycle can also be re-submitted.
In establishing the Award, the Geoffrey Bawa Trust does not intend to encourage imitation of the work and style of Geoffrey Bawa but instead, seeks to promote new and dynamic methods of meeting challenges in architecture.

The winner of the fourth cycle will be announced at a gala ceremony that celebrates the winners and their work, to be held on Sunday 23 July 2017, to coincide with Geoffrey Bawa’s 98th birth anniversary. The winner will be awarded a sum of one million rupees, as in previous years.

The judges for the 2016/2017 cycle of awards will be Mr. Ward Beling (Trustee, Geoffrey Bawa and Lunuganga Trusts), Architect Mok Wei Wei (Principal Architect, W. Architects, Singapore), Architect D.H Wijewardena (Senior Vice President, Sri Lanka Institute of Architects), and Ms. Sharmini Pereira (Founder and Director of Raking Leaves, and the Sri Lanka Archive of Contemporary Art, Architecture and Design).

The Geoffrey Bawa Trust was impressed by the response and quality of work submitted at the last three cycles. The variety of projects that made the shortlist were all of consistently high quality and demonstrated a great deal of innovative thinking which would have pleased Geoffrey Bawa himself.

Several trailblazing architects were recipients of the Geoffrey Bawa Award during the past three cycles of its existence. Archt. Pradeep Kodikara was adjudged winner of the Geoffrey Bawa Award 3rd Cycle – 2013/2014 for his design of the Kadju House in Tangalle. Winner of the Geoffrey Bawa Award 2nd Cycle – 2010/2011 was Archt. Thisara Thanapathy for his creation, the Sarath Abeyratne House in Colombo 5. Two winners shared the Geoffrey Bawa Award 1st Cycle – 2007/2008: Archt. Lalyn Collure for his creation, The Boulder Garden Hotel, and Archt. Shyamika de Silva for her design of the Nalin Indrasena House.

The Geoffrey Bawa Awards scheme is modelled on the awards scheme of the prestigious Aga Khan Trust for Culture in Geneva, inaugurated by His Highness the Aga Khan in 1977, widely acknowledged as having had a significant impact on the architecture of developing countries. Deshamanya Bawa received the Aga Khan’s Special Award for a Lifetime’s Achievement in Architecture in 2001.

About Geoffrey Bawa

Deshamanya Geoffrey Bawa is recognised as being one of the greatest Asian architects of the twentieth century and among the most iconic Sri Lankans of his generation. With his small group of talented assistants and his circle of creative friends and collaborators, he established prototype buildings in newly independent Sri Lanka, in the second half of the last century.

During a career that spanned forty years Bawa designed about thirty hotels in several countries, of which twelve are in Sri Lanka. The Bentota Beach Hotel and Serendib hotels were the first purpose-built hotels on the island and set the standards for the rest to emulate. Both contributed immeasurable to the image of Sri Lanka that was projected to the rest of the world. Many guide books to the island nation include his buildings as “must see” places and rate his hotels among the best on the island.

Through a series of innovative private houses built during the 1960s, Bawa fused modernity with tradition. He also built innovative schools and orphanages, office buildings and factories, religious buildings and universities, and pioneered new ways of studying, working and worshipping in an equatorial monsoon climate. He bequeathed to Sri Lankans the most potent image of their island democracy: the Parliament on an island at Kotte in 1982.


ABOUT THE JUDGES
Mr. Ward Beling
Ward Beling is a Trustee of the Geoffrey Bawa and Lunuganga Trusts. He will chair the Board of Judges in the 2016/2017 cycle. He is Sales and Technical Services Manager, for TOTAL Petrochemicals, France, is based in Qatar and responsible for global sales of product from TOTAL Joint Ventures in Qatar.
Archt. Mok Wei Wei

Mok Wei Wei is the principal architect of W Architects, Singapore. His architectural projects have received critical local and international acclaim. He is professor in Practice of the Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore. He was a member of the Grand Jury at the World Architectural festival in 2012.
Archt. D. H. Wijewardena

D.H Wijewardena is Senior Vice President of Sri Lanka Institute of Architects and has served in several other senior capacities of the Institute. He has represented the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects at ARCASIA, SAARCH, and the UIA on several occasions. He was a visiting lecturer at the Universities of Moratuwa and Sri Jayawardenapura, and is now a visiting lecturer of the City School of Architecture, Colombo. He is Managing Partner of D H Wijewardena Associates, a multi-disciplinary consultancy practice based out of Colombo.
Ms. Sharmini Pereira
Sharmini Pereira is the Founder and Director of Raking Leaves and the Sri Lanka Archive of Contemporary Art, Architecture and Design. She was the Guest Curator at the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, in 2014 and winner of the Abraaj Capital Art Prize in 2010. In 2006, she co-curated the first Singapore Biennale and has written and lectured on South Asian contemporary art over the past 20 years. She lives and works in Colombo, Jaffna and New York.

ABOUT THE GEOFFREY BAWA TRUST

The Geoffrey Bawa Trust was set up to promote the idea that good design is important, both to the wellbeing of the people of Sri Lanka, and to the image their country projects to the rest of the world. It aims to bring awareness of good design not just to architects, but to all those involved in the built environment.

For more information please contact:
Ms. Priyanka Tisseverasinghe
The Manager – Geoffrey Bawa Trust
Telephone: 4337335 | e-mail: admin@gbtrust.net

Photo - Reconstructed Ena De Silva House




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