Wijaya, Made
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Name (Latin)
Wijaya, Made
Other forms of name
Made Wijaya
White, Michael, 1953-2016
Date of birth
1953-03-22
Date of death
2016-08-28
Field of activity
Architecture
Bali Island (Indonesia)--Civilization
Journalism
Landscape architecture
Occupation
Southeast Asianists
Architectural critics
Architectural historians
Journalists
Landscape architects
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Architecture of Bali, 2002:t.p. (Made Wijaya) back flap of jkt. (born, Michael White in Sydney, Australia)
- His Balinese architecture, 1984:t.p. (Made Wijaya)
- Sydney morning herald WWW site, viewed Sept. 8, 2016(Made Wijaya 1953-2016; landscape architect and author; died at St Vincent's Hospital Sydney; he was 63; born Michael White, a native Sydneysider, he moved to Bali on a university holiday and fell in love--first, he would later say, with the man who rented him a motorbike, and then with the island; in 1973 he sailed to Bali; what was supposed to be a break from his studies proved to be his rebirth as Made Wijaya; soon after he arrived in Kuta, South Bali, he was informally adopted by a Brahman family in the rural village of Kepaon, where he lived for six years; in 1975, a Brahman priest conferred his new name on him in a temple ceremony; in 1979 he got a job at the Sunday Bali Post; parlayed his growing mastery of Balinese culture into a column, Stranger in Paradise: The Diary of an Expatriate, which purveyed a mixture of acidulous wit, gossip, and profound insights into island culture; The Stranger continued in various publications and online until his death; his career as a garden designer began in 1979, when Warwick Purser, an Australian entrepreneur, hired Wijaya to create a garden for a house in the Batu Jimbar residential complex designed by Geoffrey Bawa, in Sanur; Wijaya refined his vision of the tropical garden in redesigns of other estates at Batu Jimbar and then the Oberoi resort, in Legian, under the direction of resort architect Peter Muller, a frequent collaborator; with the commission of the Bali Hyatt resort in Sanur, Wijaya's reputation as Bali's premiere landscape architect became secure; designed and maintained the gardens of many of the island's best hotels, resorts, and private residences, including the Amandari and Four Seasons in Jimbaran; his reputation expanded regionwide, with commissions in Singapore and Hawaii, and then beyond, to the Caribbean, notably at David Bowie's estate in Mustique; in 2006, he was a principal architect for the Naples Botanical Garden, in Naples, Florida, which opened in 2009; always considered himself first and foremost a writer; Architecture of Bali: A Source Book of Traditional and Modern Forms, and Modern Tropical Garden Design are the definitive works on their subjects; Wijaya's most recent book was Majapahit Style, a study of classical domestic and temple architecture and ornamentation throughout south-east Asia)