COLOMBO -- Geoffrey Bawa singlehandedly made Sri Lanka a country for buildings that live and breathe.
The father of "tropical modernism" -- a school of architecture that can only be fully understood by seeing the maestro's buildings -- died in 2003, aged 83. By then, he had bequeathed to Sri Lanka a design legacy that has been widely recognized as the island state's hottest architectural genre.
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