The donor edition of Geoffrey Bawa: Drawing from the Archives is a limited edition of 100, available from January 2023 – March 2023. By purchasing the donor edition, you support the production of the book and enable us to distribute it at a subsidised cost from March, with additional discounts for students. This publication will make Geoffrey Bawa's work, particularly through his archive, accessible to a wide audience.

Every purchase of the donor edition includes:

1 advanced copy
1 A3 limited edition archival print of Jayawardena House in Mirissa (site plan)

The Geoffrey Bawa Trust is a non-profit organization with registered charitable status in Sri Lanka. Established in 1982 by Bawa, our mission is to foster art, architecture and ecological and environmental sciences.

About the book: The Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa (1919–2003) fused sensitivity for local context with the technological discoveries and design principles of modernism in his work. Gathering essays by scholars and writers across a multitude of disciplines – including architecture, photography, geography, urban design, and art history – this volume spotlights the beautiful architectural drawings of Bawa’s practice. Illustrated with over 200 drawings, many of which have never been published, the book delves into the central, multipronged role of the medium in Bawa’s work, from ideation to instruction to post-construction review. Through the context of the archive, the anthology also explores the identity of post-independence Sri Lanka, looking at the interplay between ideas and images, drawings and buildings, and above all, a sense of place.

Editor: Shayari de Silva
Texts: Sean Anderson, Geoffrey Bawa, Channa Daswatte, Jyoti Dhar, Tariq Jazeel, Meghal Perera, Suhanya Raffel, Shayari de Silva, Michael Snelling, Shirley Surya
Design: Thilini Perera, Integral Lars Müller/Lars Müller
Publisher: Lars Müller Publishers