Having come to the profession only when in his late 30's,Bawa has built an astonishing number of works, primarily in his home country but also in the South Asia region. His international standing was finally confirmed in 2001 when he received the special chairman’s award in the eighth cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, becoming only the third architect and the first non- Moslem to be so honored since the award’s inception. Bawa was born in 1919 and came late to ar ch it ec tu re, on ly qu al if yi ng in 1957 at the age of thirty-eight, but he s o o n e s t a b l is h e d h i m s e lf a s S r i Lan ka’ s mos t pro lif ic and inv en tiv e ar ch it ec t, la yi ng do w n a ca no n of prototypes for buildings in a tropical Asian context. Although best know n for his private houses and hotels, his po rt fo lio al so inc lu de d sc ho ols an d un iv er si ti es, fa ct or ie s an d of fi ce s, public buildings and socia l buildi ngs a s w e l l a s t h e n e w S r i L a n k a Parlia ment.
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