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2025 Geoffrey Bawa Memorial Lecture on 24 July by Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena
Daily FT
|July 19, 2025
THE 22nd edition of the annual Geoffrey Bawa Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Los Angeles-based architects Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena on Thursday, 24 July at 6.30 p.m. at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute (SLFI).
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The annual Memorial Lecture commemorates Geoffrey Bawa’s birthday and celebrates impactful architecture from around the world.
The speakers’ architecture firm, Escher GuneWardena Architecture, established in 2015, includes projects ranging from custom homes and housing, preservation of work of iconic buildings and collaborations with artists, art galleries, and exhibitions around the world. This breadth of experience across diverse projects will bring a multidisciplinary focus to this year’s much anticipated lecture: Clocks and Clouds.
This story is from the July 19, 2025 edition of Daily FT.
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