Who Was Laurie Baker? The British architect who built homes for India’s poor, used local materials and became the ‘Gandhi of Indian Architecture’? |
His work earned him the name “Gandhi of architecture.” Laurie Baker believed a house did not have to be expensive to be beautiful. At a time when concrete and steel were often seen as the symbols of modern construction, the British-born architect turned to local bricks, traditional building methods and the natural surroundings to design…