20th Annual Geoffrey Bawa Memorial Lecture

On Gardens: Burle Marx and Bawa

The 20th Annual Memorial Lecture, coinciding with the 75th Anniversary of Bawa’s garden Lunuganga, will take the format of two talks, reflecting on gardens.

Isabela Ono, Director of the Insituto Burle Marx will deliver a lecture on the life and legacy of the late Brazilian Landscape Architect Roberto Burle Marx. Shayari de Silva, Chief Curator of the Geoffrey Bawa Trust, will reflect on affinities in the practices of Bawa and Burle Marx. Introduced by Channa Daswatte, Chairperson of the Geoffrey Bawa Trust.

Past Lectures

2022 Tatiana Bilbao

2021 Sumayya Vally

2020 Marina Tabassum

2019 Kengo Kuma

2018 Abdel Wahed El Wakil

2017 Abha Lambah

2016 Kasef Chowdhry

2015 Yang Zhao

2014 Juan Pablo Serrano & J. Francisco Serrano

2013 Kate Otten

2012 Bijoy Jain

2011 Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassel

2010 Cecil Balmond

2009 Mok Wei Wei

2008 Gary Chang

2007 Kerry Hill

2006 Rahul Mehrotra

2005 David Robson

2004 Senake Bandaranayake