Tools that teach us their language.

Sep 11, 2024

In the 1960s, Geoffrey Bawa's architectural studio in Sri Lanka did something unusual: they drew trees on architectural plans freehand with ink pens. This practice was central to birthing the architectural movement that dominates East Asia to this day: 'tropical modernism.

You can email me here. I’m pretty active on Twitter, occasionally pop into LinkedIn, and surfing the internet through Are.na.

©2019-2025 SURYA NARREDDI.

You can email me here. I’m pretty active on Twitter, occasionally pop into LinkedIn, and surfing the internet through Are.na.

©2019-2025 SURYA NARREDDI.