Brick Master : Laurie Baker Architectural Genius Part 1

Laurie Baker is an award-winning British-born Indian architect and humanitarian, considered the "Gandhi of Architecture". He is renowned for his initiatives in cost-effective energy-efficient architecture and for his unique space utilisation and simple but beautful aesthetic sensibility building in brick, mud and locally available materials. He is widely considered the father of sustainable architecture.
He has been at various times of his life an anesthetist, a nurse, a missionary and an architect. A strong believer in non-violence, he refused to fight in the Second World War and instead joined the medical corps as an ambulance driver to tend to the injured. He lived for four years in isolation in remote China taking care of lepers. After a meeting with Gandhiji he was convinced to come to India, initially as the chief architect of the Mission to Lepers building leper homes throughout India. He has since lived in the foothills of the Himalayas building hospitals and schools and in the tribal areas of Vagamon in Kerala before finally settling down in the city of Trivandrum.
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[@bbailey17b]

Laurie Baker is an architect who deserves special attention not just because of his designs' simplicity (nor the use of bricks - nor even the excellent taste in music) but because he's found practical and inexpensive ways to ventilate and make livable dwellings in hot climates without need for electricity and air conditioning, which leave a massive environmental footprint whereever they are found.

[@kashyapaiesec]

Please give due credit to the maker of this movie, Ms. Priya Krishnaswamy. She's my mom.

[@rvigsn]

I have no idea of what Mr Geoffrey Bawa work is all about, however I was inspired by Laurie Baker's styled construction. So I went ahead and made a house for myself, a simple dwelling. It is good, comfortable, cool and soothing to eyes. I am extremely contended with the style and the inspiration. Thanks to Laurie Baker for inspiring lots of people in India.

[@wheelie_monkprabu947]

Thank you Priya Krishnamurthy for this video

[@paayoub]

such a humple and down to earth person ..I hope his mission still carries on..

[@JS.forever]

Thank you for sharing this 🙂🙏

[@ferdoushhasann1231]

i went through books of bawa's works....... his drawings are beautiful....... and baker...... his thoughts and methods are beautiful......... you can not compare between two of them

[@ashokbhatia6]

Sir I have seen your video sir what material is used in roof

[@RAHMATHALIAr]

Great !!!