Laurie Baker, for whom home was extension of land, dies at 90 RAJEEV PI So impressed was Gandhi with this Royal Navy hand’s shoes stitched from scraps, he asked him if he would build homes for the poor THIRUVANANTAPURAM, APRIL 1: The Briton who turned the canons of conventional homemaking on their head and became one of India’s greatest living architectural legends, is no more. Laurie Baker, 90, passed away at his Thiruvanantapuram home this morning after prolonged illness. He will be buried tomorrow. The boy from a middle class home in Birmingham who studied architecture in London, Baker came...