How else would you celebrate the life and work of Tropical Modernist Geoffrey Bawa ? This cocktail arrived in my inbox this week from   Peter Suderman who has a fantastic substack called Cocktails With Suderman .    Given that both Minette De Silva and Geoffrey Bawa were working in similar but slightly different styles of Tropical Modernism and both were from Sri Lanka, it makes sense for Geoffrey’s cocktail to be based on the same classic cocktail as Minette’s; the Mai Tai, albeit with a...

Geoffrey Bawa is considered one of the founders of Tropical Modernism, along with fellow Sri Lankan architect Minette De Silva . Seeing as we’ve already chatted about Minnette, it makes sense to continue our discussion about Tropical Modernism, or what some call Regional Modernism, with Geoffrey Bawa. So what exactly is Tropical Modernism? In a nutshell, it’s a style of architecture in which some of the classic components of modernism have been modified to suit a different (often tropical)...

Mother of Regional Modernism. First Female Architect of Sri Lanka. Minnette De Silva is having a moment, with articles written on her in every trendy design magazine from Elle Decor to Wallpaper. Similarly to Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi , her form of modernism emphasizing local craft traditions and indigenous building techniques was incredibly prescient, although the importance of her work is only now getting the acknowledgment it deserves. Unlike Lina Bo Bardi, very few of her...