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tbings - tbe need of the person and tbe htpes of nwterials at'ailable stair or another terrace - another sign of the hand of man.
for use. Utimately tbe rest colnes out of -'t,ourself. \'otr build u'bat "I like buman interuention... like in a landscape uhen people
lou thi?xk is an ansuer and tubiclt git'es .t,ou pleasilt'e. I tltirtk u'e cottriue to mould it to tbeir moods."
all buildfor ourselues. At least J,ott krtoLt' tt'ltat -t'ott ttant to do. It's It was enough that what was built or moulded managed to en-
not a tbeory or an intellectual ansu'er." gage the user's mind in a pleasurable way. The natural environment
His approach to architecture has alu'ar-s been one of direct is seen alrnost as if it were cla_v in a sculptor's hand. This is moulded
experience and sensualiry. The prime concem is alrr avs for the life within its physical limits to produce a series of pleasing vistas, views
in the sequences ofspaces that are created. His architecture does not and spaces. With simple geometric intervention, sometimes a mere
engage the mind to be clever, but provides a background to an line, Bawa 'civilises' the wildest stretch of jr-rngle, and the careful plac-
expected and anticipated life. ing ofan artefact, in the case oflunuganga. a pot placed in the middle