Laurie Baker : Poor Man's Architect - A Biography Part 1

A biography of inspiring British-origin Indian architect Laurie Baker who pioneered cost-effective energy efficient beautiful and simple architecture in India in brick mud and local materials... after meeting Gandhiji he decided to stay in India and build for the masses.
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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[@BinMathkv]

Inspired by his work, now my home is being constructed by COSTFORD started by him.

[@nehal1621]

Architecture is your Passion We Respect your Work .SIR JI Thanks

[@sinisathish8052]

Love this GREAT soul.

[@johnbosco8209]

The great legend never dies in India

[@TheVcasf]

i'm sure laurie would not have liked being called "mister". thank you for sharing

[@4WDIESEL1]

beautiful video, thank you so much for posting it.

[@keleniengaluafe2600]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@ravikumarrathod2507]

Great job in this world .. ❤

[@shantanukhandkar]

I resent the term 'low cost'. I am sure it is unintentional, but it has pejorative undertones. 'Cost-effective' is, in my view, a more fitting term.

[@gl.designs]

Shantanu Khandkar well said saying low cost is sometimes misunderstood by people

[@yomcule]

@@gl.designs I feel otherwise. Cost does not equal value, and Baker mastered the art of delivering value at low cost. We all need to open ourselves to the fact that low cost does not mean cut-price. Low-cost is the perfect word. To quote Baker "So right from the word go I was involved with the lowly, the small town people, the depressed, and the question was always of trying to make a little money go as far as possible. Whether I wanted or not, I got into low-cost design but I got more and more interested in it. "

[@prashantm4834]

Gandhi of Indian architecture

[@biohomie369]

Main video Starts at 2.30 mins. Prior his basic history he came from England, met ganghiji got inspired and made low cost simple housing / structures.

[@36yovan]

*Cost effectiveness varies from city to city. More in some places and less in where the raw materials are easily accessible!*

[@tiffanyheng4207]

Bravo .. ☺

[@adityaathawalemusic7396]

That's why he is said to be the Gandhi of Architecture

[@abullcart2169]

He is really Great Architecture

[@MadhuVMenon-nasskobar-maxx]

Are all these houses really 'cost effective' or not too expensive? Is there any way Baker Sir can be contacted? Does he assist in finding out sources (material I mean) for such construction?

[@foulcamel5973]

Madhu Menon hecl is deceased

[@MadhuVMenon-nasskobar-maxx]

Lost Spirit ™ Oh..thanks for the info. (Y)

[@premakarunakaran3729]

But the institute is there they train masons electrician plumbers

[@premakarunakaran3729]

We can engage them for construction they send the supervisors plan drawings they give according to the site

[@lohithrock5641]

His idea is to give low price homes for everyone but architects n rest making big money out of it...such a shame..

[@wolfgangweber2516]

gandhi was not at all good for india, his effects are more negative than posivitve

[@parvathyp4152]

Yes 👍