Robert Powell

IntroductionToward the end of the 1920s, along the sun-dappled southern coast of the island then known as Ceylon, a European aristocrat experienced a moment of intense personal revelation. It was not Count de Mauny-Talvande's first trip to Ceylon. That had been in 1912, when he came as a guest of...

INTRODUCTIONAlthough one-off private houses by architects constitute only a small fraction of new building and although they side-step socioeconomic issues through being built for the well-off they do provide an important opportunity for exploration and demonstration. It is here that the ideas of...