materialicious posted this inspirational obituary of architect laurie baker. i never heard of him, but i’ll look up his work next time I’m at the CED library.
Gandhian principles infused his work, as they did his life. “I now think Gandhi was right,” he wrote in 1975, “when he said that all the building materials should be found within five miles of the site”, and “Low-cost techniques should not be considered only for the poor — our aim should be to design only the simplest of buildings for all.”
