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Trailblazing Women Architects: Minneta De Silva (1918 – 1998)

Trailblazing Women Architects: Minneta De Silva (1918 - 1998)Trailblazing Women Architects: Minneta De Silva (1918 - 1998)

“Expressive, unapologetic, and ahead of her time in ecological and participative design” are the words that The Architectural Review uses to describe Minneta De Silva — widely considered the first female architect in Sri Lanka and one of the most important figures in South Asian modernist architecture. Minneta De Silva was born in 1918 in Kandy, Sri Lanka, thirty years […]