We are excited to announce that Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena will delivering this year’s Geoffrey Bawa Memorial Lecture. Founding partners at Escher GuneWardena Architecture, established in 1995, the firm’s award-winning work ranges from residential to commercial and institutional projects.
Residential work includes numerous custom homes and housing in the Los Angeles region, while their institutional work involves collaborations with artists, art galleries, and exhibition design projects internationally. Preservation-related projects encompass works by John Lautner, the Eameses, Rudolf Schindler, Richard Neutra and Paul R. Williams.
They were exhibition designers and curatorial advisors for The Jeweled Isle: Art from Sri Lanka, the 2018 exhibition which presented 240 works spanning two millennia of Sri Lankan history at LACMA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Other notable work for the Sri Lankan community in California includes a 100-acre meditation center campus in the foothills of the San Gabriel mountains.