Work
Sri Lankan Parliament Building
Explore in the Atlas →Bawa's cluster of copper-roofed pavilions on an artificial island fuses tropical modernism with Sri Lankan vernacular and Kandyan precedent, giving a young nation a civic monument floating on water.
Power Collectivity Memory
Details
- Type
- Building
- Location
- Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, Sri Lanka
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- Lived experienceReason
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Hegemonic
- Mode of transmission
- ApprenticeshipText drawing
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophicalSouth asian
Connections
- exemplifies Tropical Modernism
- exemplifies Critical Regionalism
Referenced by
- Geoffrey Bawa authored
Sources
- David Robson. Geoffrey Bawa: The Complete Works. Thames & Hudson, 2002.
- David Robson. Beyond Bawa: Modern Masterworks of Monsoon Asia. Thames & Hudson, 2007.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Sri Lankan Parliament Building." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/work/sri-lanka-parliament/. Accessed July 17, 2026.