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The following is a list of architects with a strong connection to the country of Sri Lanka (i.e., born in Sri Lanka, located in Sri Lanka or known primarily for their work in Sri Lanka). This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Term "Architect" and "Chartered Architect" are protected titles in Sri Lanka under the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects law (act) no. 1 of 1976 and the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects (Amendment) Act, No. 14 of 1996. In Sri Lanka, architects are required to meet three common requirements for registration: education, experience, and examination.
EDEX Expo is an annual career fair and exhibition in Sri Lanka which is the flagship event of EDEX.Over the years it has become the primary career fair in the country and a national event with the primary exhibition taking place at BMICH, Colombo followed by a secondary exhibition taking place at Kandy a few weeks later.
Panini Tennekoon (5 February 1922 – 16 July 2007) was a Sri Lankan architect. [1] [2] He spent most of his career as a public servant, working in the Public Works Department, serving as the country's chief architect, before running his own architectural practice, designing low-cost housing and investigating sustainable timber use in construction.
Charles Edward Manoharan "Mano" Ponniah (born 3 May 1943) is a Sri Lankan architect and engineer who played first-class cricket in Sri Lanka and England from 1964 to 1969. Cricket career in Ceylon [ edit ]
Bawa was influenced by colonial and traditional Ceylonese architecture, and the role of water in it, but rejected both the idea of regionalism and the imposition of preconceived forms onto a site. [13] Plesner left the island in 1967. [14] Bawa became an Associate of the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects in 1960.
In 1996, two years before her death, after being largely ignored during much of her career, de Silva was awarded the Gold Medal by the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] The closest thing to a memoir she published was "a charmingly illustrated ‘scrapbook’ autobiography", The Life and Works of an Asian Woman Architect - unedited ...
[1] [5] He then joined the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London in 1954 as a Colombo Plan scholar, graduating in 1957 with a A.A. diploma specialising in tropical architecture. [1] [4] [5] He then resumed his career at the PWD before retiring in 1964 in due to government policies. [1] [5]