A Quite Long History of Bali Hotel Architecture Part VI: Indonesian Designers

After completing the eight-part story about the history of Balinese hotel architecture, I realised that I missed a very important piece: a story about Indonesian designers (architects, interior designers, you name it). Though their influences are deeply appreciated in each part of the article, I think it’s essential for us to understand the context and integrity of their works much deeper.

This part should have started with Wija Waworuntu cause he’s practically the architect of Tandjung Sari and, together with Donald Friend, the visionary behind the Batujimbar Estate project. But since that period of time has been covered in the previous parts, I will go back to 1980s instead and put this chronologically as “Part VI”.

Atelier 6
The original Atelier 6 was initiated in 1968 by six architects and legally registered as an architectural firm in 1972. In 1980 the company started to diversity itself into other branches of project disciplines like interior design, structural & civil engineering, mechanical engineering, project management, and also property development — mostly owned and managed by the Indonesian government.

The Atelier 6 team is led by architect Darmawan Prawirohardjo, who received his training at the Bandung Institute of Technology. He is the president of Atelier 6 and responsible for the design of a number of the firm’s important completed projects that includes airports, hospitals, office…