The island of Sri Lanka has always been open to the movements and patterns of world culture due to its status as an entrepot of Indian ocean trade. Indigenous architectural and cultural traditions, have combined to produce a distinctive Sri Lankan architectural style.
Features
- Showcases over 30 of the finest traditional and modern dwellings in Sri Lanka
- Designed by Sri Lanka's most creative architects and interior designers, including never seen before works by world-renowned architect Geoffrey Bawa.
- Demonstrates the essentials of Sri Lankan lifestyle
- Practical design ideas that can be applied anywhere in the tropics
- Photographed entirely on location, this book is an inspirational source of contemporary tropical style
- Over 350 full colour photographs
Author Channa Daswatte is one of Sri Lanka's leading architects and also writes frequently for international and local journals and magazines. He trained under Geoffrey Bawa, Sri Lanka's most prolific and influential architect.
Photographer Dominic Sansoni has worked as a professional photographer in Sri Lanka since 1980, documenting subjects as diverse as roadside shrines, temple interiors, architecture, traditional ways of life and the people of the island.
