Chairman's Award: Geoffrey Bawa
(Sri Lanka)


Geoffrey Bawa is Sri Lanka's most prolific and influential architect. His work has had tremendous impact upon architecture throughout Asia and is unanimously acclaimed connoisseurs of architecture worldwide. Surprisingly, however, his architecture is not well known outside the region, and has not received the international attention in deserves.

On only the third occasion since he founded the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, in 1977, His Highness the Aga Khan will present the special Chairman's Award during the 2001 award cycle to Mr. Bawa to honor and celebrate his lifetime achievements in and contribution to the field of architecture.