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 […]


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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 […]


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Indo-Britons & the Architecture of South India by Shanti Jayewardene Pillai Published by YODA PRESS, India Imperial Conversations – a quest to understand nineteenth century architectural history presents a refreshingly different view point as until the late 1980s”British and Indian buildings were studied separately and imperial architecture portrayed as having occurred without Indians”.


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Weerakkodige Vasantha Perera (Self-published, 2008, 58pp) “Cities arise, they exist, they flourish sheltering myriad forms of life. At times they crumble and decay into ruins and rubble to emerge into new life once again, when the conditions are ripe. Continual transformation is the process that cities and human settlements have to endure….” reads the abstract […]


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by Barbara Sansoni Barbara Sansoni’s fascination with buildings had begun in her childhood through high ceiling, wide verandah residencies which were occupied by her father as Government Agent in Batticaloa, Kurunegala and Matale. Her love affair with architecture crystallized in the early 60s. Unable to purchase the many beautiful buildings that were being knocked down […]


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