architect Archives

August 5, 2024

The 2024 Geoffrey Bawa Memorial Lecture will be delivered by architect and educator Anupama Kundoo at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, 9th August at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute (No.100, Sri Lanka Padanama Mawatha, Independence Square, Colombo 7). Her talk is titled “Rethinking Material Resources alongside Human Resourcefulness.” This annual event organised by the […]

June 19, 2024

Architect Geoffrey Bawa is widely known for designing buildings including the Sri Lankan Parliament and multiple institutions. The ways of inhabiting these spaces made Bawa’s personal garden, Lunuganga, all the more striking as a place that encouraged limitless self-expression from both an architectural and personal standpoint. The Order of Nature is an ongoing project at […]

August 24, 2023

‘Ini’ – a much-awaited book on the inimitable architectural works of Sri Lankan architect Vijitha Basnayaka was launched on Wednesday, 23rd August, aptly in a building designed by the architect. This book provides an insight into Basnayaka’s highly collaborative process of design, where buildings are steered through an informal path of development, […]

July 11, 2022

Wife Yogeswari hands over purpose-built facility designed by architect Anjalendran to Ministry of Health Ragama, Friday 8th July 2022: A 100-bed, purpose-built cancer hospital was gifted to the people of Sri Lanka today in a poignant tribute to the memory and legacy of philanthropy of one of Negombo’s most-loved former citizens […]

21st Annual Geoffrey Bawa Memorial Lecture by Anupama Kundoo

The Order of Nature and Queer Histories at Lunuganga

‘Ini: A selection of buildings by Vijitha Basnayaka’ hits the stands after unique launch

Jayam Wijayaratnam’s legacy lives on in gift of 100-bed cancer hospital