‘Urban Living’, is an unavoidable circumstance in today’s context which is common to any country in the world.

Like Bawa, Anjalendran draws liberally on the ‘vernacular’ traditions of his country, so that his buildings variously invoke the courtyards of old Jaffna, the columns and arches of Kandyan ‘manor houses’, and the ancient boulder gardens of Anuradhapura and Buddhist temples. And he does so with real and intimate knowledge of these traditions.

The year 2007 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects, the collective voice of the architectural fraternity of Sri Lanka.

Architecture in educational syllabuses everywhere has been defined as both an art and science, but its ultimate function tends to vary from architect to architect. Andrea Oppenheimer’s Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency introduces us to a vivid world where an architect chooses virtue over grandeur and firmly grounds his work into [...]

Weerakkodige Vasantha Perera
(Self-published, November 2010)
Jaffna – a sketch book, published in May 2008, was Vasantha’s first book which I incidentally picked up from a book store since the book seemed a refreshing twist to many of the books on display.

By Robert Kronenburg.
Published by Laurence King Publishing Ltd. London. (2007)
Human beings are flexible creatures who originated as a nomadic species. Each day was a new adventure. Life then, was a wholesome journey among mountains, rivers, rain and sun, in which our existence was based on our capacity for movement and adaptability.

by Nimal de Silva and DP Chandrasekara
Published by The National Trust of Sri Lanka (2009)
Heritage Buildings of Sri Lanka is a documentation of the architectural heritage dating from the” medieval period (13th century) to the colonial period.

By Ou Baholyodhin.
Published by Tuttle Publishing,
United States. (2000).
“Living with Zen”- transforms a person into a minimalist by revealing Zen as an antidote to all that is excessive, formal, pompous or contrived. By a stunning new method of presentation- a fusion of symbolic pictures and scraps of philosophy, it changes ones view of everyday objects and [...]