More on Laurie Baker
The following URL’s would help throw more light on Laurie Baker’s genius and contribution to India in the past 50 years.
Some of his masterpieces include Dakshinachitra near chennai, Center for Development Studies, Trivandrum etc.
http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2005/stories/20030314000906400.htm
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2000/07/brick_master.html
http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl1416/14161160.htm
Here’s one to Shankar, another Trivandrum based architect.
I could not find any links in the morning mainly because I got Laurie’s name spelt wrong (I tried searching for Lawry Baker:D)
January 27th, 2006 at 7:32 pm
PK, I’ve heard about another architect who build echo-friendly houses using mud! His name is Yujin Pandala [if the spelling is right :-)]. There was an article about him once in the leadning newspapers. These houses survived the monsoon and summer in years.
About Laurie it was a big trend once, everybody used to built such houses then after a short while people turned to the expensive ways.
January 28th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
hey Jo,
actually i expected you more than anybody to know abt baker and you did:)
u too write more on stuffs like these lets not worry abt whether baker philosophy is popular or not. after all not all sensible things r popular:)
January 29th, 2006 at 10:05 pm
Very true PK. It’s sad to see, but people keep quite when things like these mentioned.