Early childhood interactions with building sites and architects shaped Architect Michele Fonseka’s future. Her family background is based in construction as her grandfather and later her father headed a well established engineering and construction company that she lived next door to, affording her a close up view into the construction industry. By Mutiara Tegal Educated […]

Archt Prasanna Silva today is a senior Architect with experience in both the Government and Private Sector. In his retirement from the Public Sector he currently is working for Arch-Triad Consultants as a Consultant Architect working on projects related to institutional, educational and mixed development.

Today Dilummini de Mel is not only an architect with a busy practice but is also thoroughly involved in working with the professional body – the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects, giving her time to impart her professional knowledge to create better environments for the less privileged while not neglecting her duties as a housewife and a mother of two growing children of 11 and eight respectively.

Archt M M G Samuel is an award winning Chartered Architect and a Fellow Member of the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects.

It is not possible to talk only about Milroy Perera’s work. To do so would be to ignore the human sensitivities and relationships that have made his an amazing and ongoing journey in architecture.

In February 2008, the architectural profession honoured one of its most enduring and influential members with the award of the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects Gold Medal.

Shyamika Silva describes her “Architectural Direction” in life to be a calling, one which emerged early, where as a child she found great interest in walking around and analyzing the varying aspects of both old and new architecture. Captivated and inspired by Architect Pani Tennakoon’s house near St Bridget’s Convent, young Shyamika always dreamt of someday being able to build something like that.

By: Amanda Rajakaruna “I rarely imitate existing furniture designed by other people but innovate something new, which is a unique answer to the problem in hand.” Apart from being brought up in a design background, simple experiences of camping in Sri Lanka’s forest reserves as a child has made Rangi Basnayake who she is today. A […]