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Laurence Wilfred "Laurie" Baker
 | Laurence Wilfred "Laurie" Baker (March 2, 1917 – April 1, 2007) was an award-winning British-born Indian architect, renowned for his initiatives in cost-effective energy-efficient architecture and for his unique space utilization and simple but beautiful aesthetic sensibility. He went to India in 1945 in part as a missionary and since then lived and worked in India for over 50 years. He obtained Indian citizenship in 1989 and resided in Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), Kerala. In 1990, the Government of India awarded him with the Padma Shri in recognition of his meritorious service in the field of architecture. |
| Baker was born into a staunch Methodist family. In his teens Baker began to question what religion meant to him and decided to become a Quaker since it was closer to what he believed in. Baker studied architecture in Birmingham and graduated in 1937, aged 20, in a period of political unrest for Europe. |
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http://eng.archinform.net/arch/6857.htm
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