Cambridge University, UK Special Screening of Uncommon Sense on November 3 2017 at the Department of Architecture. ArchDaily’s Must Watch Architectural Film of 2017. Featured in Architectural Digest, Domus and 40 other leading publications.Screened in over 30 countries worldwide.

Film introduction by: Robin Spence, Emeritus Professor of Architectural Engineering in the University of Cambridge. The event is even more special by the fact that Professor Robin Spence was a dear friend of the man called the “Gandhi of Architecture” and the “Architect for India’s Poor,” Pritzker nominated Quaker sustainable architect, Laurie Baker, who made the impossible dream of green strong affordable homes possible for millions in India.

Event organised by Architecture Sans Frontieres – Cambridge.

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LAURIE BAKER’S FILM – UNCOMMON SENSE – TO BE SCREENED WORLDWIDE

Upcoming film screenings of Uncommon Sense: The Life and Architecture of Laurie Baker.

Below are ticketed international public screenings for the months of April and May for which ticket sales are open now:

Sofia Bulgaria – April 23rd and April 29th 2017 (2 shows) Master of Art Festival
Buy tickets: masterofartfilmfestival.com/en/portfolio/the-gandhi-of-architecture-2/
Note: Film is billed as Gandhi of Architecture. This is an alternate title. It is the same film as Uncommon Sense

Florida, USA – May 3rd Sarasota Architectural Foundation
Buy tickets: saf.wildapricot.org/event-2511229

Winnipeg, Canada – May 5th 2017 Winnipeg Architecture and Design Festival
Buy tickets: adff.ca/films/2017/uncommon-sense-the-life-and-architecture-of-laurie-baker/

Various cities, New Zealand – 13 screenings in 4 cities
May 7,9, 10, 12 – Auckland
May 21, 23, 30 – Wellington
June 10, 14, 18 – Dunedin
Jul 3, 5, 11 – Christchurch
Buy tickets: resene.co.nz/filmfestival.htm

Other Upcoming International Screenings:
1. Helsinki, Finland
2. Colombo, Sri Lanka
3. Jakarta, Indonesia
4. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
5. Osaka, Japan
6. Sao Paolo, Brazil
7. Dhaka, Bangladesh
8. Brisbane, Australia
9. Munich, Germany
10 New York, USA
11. Milan, Italy

LAURIE BAKER FULL MOVIE FEATURETTE & DOCUMENTARY FILM TRAILER 1 – “UNCOMMON SENSE – THE LIFE AND ARCHITECTURE OF LAURIE BAKER – Featured in ArchDaily’s “Architecture Documentaries To Watch In 2017”

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Architecture Documentaries To Watch In 2017

Uncommon Sense: The Life and Architecture of Laurie Baker / Vineet Radhakrishnan

Forthcoming Release / English

Laurence Wilfred Baker (known as Laurie Baker) was a renowned British-born Indian architect and humanitarian. Alongside that, he was also an accomplished cartoonist, artist and innovative designer. Among other professions, he was also an architect. He once said: I think I am subconsciously often strongly influenced by nature, and much of nature’s ‘structural work’ is not straight or square. A tall reed of grass in a windy, wild terrain is a long cylinder or a hollow tube; tree trunks and stems of plants that carry fruit and leaves are usually cylindrical and not square. Curves are there to take stresses and strains and to stand up to all sorts of external forces. On top if it all, they look good and beautiful and are infinitely more elegant than straight lines of steel and concrete.”

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Recognition:

On Dec 29th 2016 “Uncommon Sense” was selected to ArchDaily‘s (the largest architecture website in the world) yearly exclusive and prestigious list of “Architecture Documentaries to Watch in 2017” making it the first Indian film to be selected to the list

Synopsis of the film:

Often called the Gandhi of Architecture, the Father of Green Building in India and India’s Architect for the Poor, Pritzker (Nobel Prize for Architecture) nominated British-born Quaker architect, Dr. Laurie Baker was convinced to come to India by Gandhi and lived on the fringes of civilisation with his Indian doctor wife in the remote Himalayas and forests of India for over 20 years helping the local people with medicine and building. At the age of 50, he returned to democratise architecture with his unusual simple yet powerful design ideas, making strong, green, beautiful yet cheap homes a reality for thousands in India who could never have otherwise afforded a house.

Filmed over 3.5 years and directed by his grandson, Vineet Radhakrishnan, this social documentary covers his remarkable life story, examines his pioneering socially and environmentally relevant building philosophies and how his radical, innovative ideas redefined the role that an architect and architecture can and should play in society.

Source: Vineet Radhakrishnan

 

Uncommon Sense: The Life and Architecture of Laurie Baker

Preview of “Uncommon Sense: The Life and Architecture of Laurie Baker”, a biographical film, at the Kochi Muziris Biennale 2017.

http://kochimuzirisbiennale.org/eve…/laurie-baker-100-years/

Directed by Laurie Baker’s grandson, Vineet Radhakrishnan, this is the first Indian Film ever to feature in ARCHDAILY’S “Architecture Films To Watch” List.

Laurence Wilfred Baker (March 2, 1917 – April 1, 2007) was a British-born Indian architect, renowned for his cost-effective, energy-efficient architecture, space utilisation and aesthetic sensibility.

In 1983, Laurie Baker was conferred with an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) at Buckingham Palace.

In 1992, he was awarded the Roll of Honour by the United Nations.

In 1990, the Government of India awarded him the Padma Shri for his meritorious service in the field of architecture.

Courtesy: Vineet Radhakrishnan