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  • De Saram House 61/6 Ward Place Colombo, WP, 00700 Sri Lanka (map)

In August, the Geoffrey Bawa Trust invited, researchers and architecture enthusiasts to research and contribute to Wikipedia entries on the work of five architectural practices responsible for shaping the architectural language of Sri Lanka part of Contemporary Practices programme.

This programme is an ongoing effort to make the web presence of fact-checked knowledge of these architects and to encourage research on their work and its relevance to architecture globally.

View the Wikipedia pages below:

Justin Samarasekera (1916−2003)
Minnette de Silva (1918−1998)
Geoffrey Bawa (1919−2003)
Panini Tennekoon (1923−2007)
Valentine Gunasekara (1931−2017)

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