"The traditional top-down and data-driven process gives more consideration to helping businesses, the powerful and the well-to-do, he said. Little thought is accorded to individuals' ability to function within an area or a community's capacity to change space according to its needs."
Featuring Nihau Perera - Ball State University News
People’s spaces: from Colombo to kalametiya by Nihau Perera Poster (Image © ICES Events)
Read More"A collection of 14,500 images charting the transformation of Singapore has been largely unseen by the general public for up to half a century. The slides, dating from 1965 to 1995 and taken by the late architectural historian Lee Kip Lin, capture memories such as the city centre's inter-connected five- foot-ways, which were designed to shade pedestrians from the tropical weather, as mandated by the 1822 colonial town plan."
Featuring Chee Kien Lai - Singapore Straits Times
"This essay focuses on Sri Lanka’s medieval period when competing urban centres and territorial politics thrived in the region. It proposes to reconstruct a lost architectural heritage through a literary genre of Sandesa Kavyas (message poems), which capture the island’s urban geography prior to its destruction by European colonizers."
Featuring Anoma Piers - Thuppahi's Blog
Mural of forest birds at Kotte Raja Maha Viharaya (Image © Anoma Pieris)
New directions in Asian architecture: From regional to global aspirations 2011 (Image © Anoma Pieris)
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