"I have my own principles, which I am unwilling to abandon. I dislike falsehood and deceit. A building should be truthful." This is a book about the man who believed in the above, --- the story of a Green-Quaker architect written by his wife Dr.Elizabeth Baker. There is a very simple love story as the backdrop: two kindred souls, a Britisher and a Keralite, meeting, getting married and dedicating their lives together for providing medicare in the inaccessible villages near the Himalayas and later at Vagaman, Kerala. Laurie's life as a Conscientious Objector to World War II, his work with the lepers in remote Chinese villages in the early 1940s, meeting with Gandhiji, Laurie's life as a cost-effective green architect, are unraveled in simple understatements by Dr. Elizabeth who shared six decades of life with Laurie Baker. Here is the inspiring memoirs of a person who never planned his life and spent every moment of his life like a prayer.
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Contents Introduction 7 Young Laurie Baker 11 The Society of Friends 13 Journey to China 36 In China 40 In the Burmese Jungle 43 Back in China 49 Laurie meets Gandhiji 90 Back to India 91 My Life with Laurie Baker 94 We are One in Spirit 96 The Waiting Period 98 The Wedding 101 The March into the Unknown 102 Life in the Himalayas 106 The Hospital 108 Life in Chandag 110 Building with a Feel for People 114 The Bhotias 118 Mitranikethan 122 The Literacy Village 124 The Journey to Nepal 125 To Kerala 127 In Vagamon, Kerala 133 Building for Kerala 137 The Structure and Fabric of Life in Kerala 142 Laurie?s Architectural Life in Kerala 145 Life goes on 150 Laurie Baker, the Architect 154 Conclusion 158
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