In January 1958 a young Danish man in his twenties gets off a ship in Colombo. He is an architect; he is devastatingly handsome and has a wry sense of humour.

The book is a successful achievement of an attempt to research the concepts and works accomplished by the master architect Kengo Kuma, during 1994 and 2004. By Luigi Alini with an essay by Kengo Kuma  Reviewed by Archt. Jayantha Domingo The book includes an Introduction to the subject by the author, Luigi Alini, who is […]

Most of the contemporary urban areas in the developing countries, including Sri Lanka, have been following the same path and strategies of physical development the major cities in the developed world pursued and in most cases failed to be successful, socially.

‘Organic’ is currently one of the favourite and frequently used catch words in the modern world. People talk about being ‘Organic’ relating it to many different fields for instance horticulture, fertilizer, clothing, food, products, computing,  architecture, certification and so on. But what really is ‘Organic’? As defined in scholar dictionaries, organic is ‘relating to or […]

The trend of being environmentally responsible along with the notion of “less is more” have been explored thoroughly and presented in a simple and concise manner in the book “Micro Green – Tiny Houses in Nature”.

‘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.