A Quite Long History of Bali Hotel Architecture Part II: Geoffrey Bawa and Peter Muller
On the way back from a trip to Paris in 1971, Donald Friend went back to Sri Lanka and visited Geoffrey Bawa’s Lunuganga Estate and his recent works, including Bentota Beach Hotel. After reading Geoffrey’s new works, he was convinced that Geoffrey was the best architect in Asia at the time, so he decided to let Bawa participate in the project.
Geoffrey Bawa was actually not familiar with Donald Friend before. When Donald lived in Bevis Bawa’s house, he showed the working state of a typical artist: a workaholic, working and drawing pictures day and night, and various unfinished sketches here and there. But in any case, Geoffrey impressed Donald with his works . They began to cooperate closely.
In 1973, Geoffrey Bawa followed Donald to the Bali research base, and was familiar with the architectural style and characteristics of Bali. The first buildings Donald took him to see were Klungkung’s courtyards and water palaces. These impressive historical buildings in Bali have also become important inspirations and references for Geoffrey Bawa’s creation in Bali.
Geoffrey Bawa finally came up with his proposal. Each of the 15 plots covers an area of about 4000 square meters, and each plot has a 30-meter-long beach in front of it. Although each plot is…
