Caged: A reflection on the subaltern self in Absurdia

An Exhibition by Rajitha Rupasinghe

Graphics and text by Rajitha Rupasinghe

Pearl TV - 1st Web TV In Sri Lanka

Pearl TV

වාස්තු විද්‍යාව සහ ජ්‍යෝතිෂය

වාස්තු විද්‍යාව සහ ජ්‍යෝතිෂය from Young Asia Television on Vimeo.

Architect Anura Dayaratna on "වාස්තු විද්‍යාව සහ ජ්‍යෝතිෂය".
This discussion is in Sinhala.

so you want to be an architect

TED TALK: 17 words of architectural inspiration from libeskind

Daniel Libeskind's 17 words of architectural inspiration

TED TALK: urban design

Jaime Lerner sings of the city

James H Kunstler dissects suburbia

prof. harsha munasinghe on sustaining urban scapes

Sustaining Urbanscapes from Young Asia Television on Vimeo.

TED TALK: michael pawlyn: using nature’s genius in architecture

How can architects build a new world of sustainable beauty? By learning from nature. At TEDSalon in London, Michael Pawlyn describes three habits of nature that could transform architecture and society: radical resource efficiency, closed loops, and drawing energy from the sun.

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TED TALKS: radical look at sustainable architecture

designing theory and theorizing design

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readymade music - how architecture helped music evolve

a lot has been written on how architecture has been influenced by music (or cinema). --- ---- But here is a view the other way round. How music has been influenced by the surrounding architecture or the context. Do we subconsciously make music to fit the spaces we occupy? Do we make art to fit galleries?  General or the traditional way to think about creativity is to say, first come the passion then the emotional outpouring of it which  only as the last stage will be shaped in to the context or the space. But apparently this is not not entirely so. The very emotions the make the art or the music itself is preconditioned by the space or the context. there fore the music is 'ready made' for the space or the architecture to which the musician (in this case) associate him or her self with. Listen to David Byrne.


Source: TED Talk

good architecture can heal wounds

Good Architecture Can Heal Wounds: Anji & Robson on utube

the hire

The Hire

The Hire: Ambush


The Hire: Chosen


The Hire: The Follow


The Hire: Star


The Hire: Powder Keg


The Hire: Hostage


The Hire: Ticker


The hire: Beat The Devil


Cool series of short movies from BMW.
People who like these may also want to watch;
John Frankenheimer's Ronin
Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Wong Kar-wai's Chungking Express 
Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Alejandro González Iñárritu's 21 Grams
John Woo's The Killer
Joe Carnahan's A Team (the movie)
Tony Scott's Top Gun

TED TALK: radical look at sustainabe architecture

Interesting TED Talks on architecture and related subjects.

Rachel Armstrong: Architecture that repairs itself?

Magnus Larsson: Turning dunes into architecture

dr. anuththaradevi on sri lankan contemporary architecture

"Eastern Needs and American Desires" by Dr. Anuththaradevi Widyalankara, a Fulbright Scholar, on contemporary Sri Lankan architecture, delivered at the Savannah School of Art & Design, USA (on SCAD tv)

interview with architect channa daswatte

Above is the Part-1 and here are the Part-2 & Part-3

archt. vijitha basnayake on materials and colour

archt. shyamika silva on materials and colour

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archt. hirante welandawe on materials and colour

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'london underground network' by digital urban

Second Movie of the 'Growing' London Underground Network from digitalurban on Vimeo.
Cool video and the music not bad either. (music by the Creeping Charlies - 'Strange Train')

imagining modernity: the architecture of valentine gunasekara (Book #1)

If Geoffrey is the ‘ying’ of Sri Lanka architecture, here is the ‘yang’ for you.
Though both Geoffrey and Valentine had their architectural upbringing firmly rooted in the mid 20th centaury modernism, they have taken different path once upon their return this ‘beautiful’ island. While Geoffrey moved towards a more ‘vernacular / regional’ (a whole topic by itself for another day) style, Valentine decided to stay the dyed in the wool modernist.


This book explores the reasons for such an approach and the resultant work, his professional relationship with Geoffrey and more importantly the socio –cultural background within which all those things happened. It is, in addition to a monograph of Valentine’s work, is almost a critical analysis of the caste and religious dynamics of the early part of post independent Sri Lanka.

But be warned, this is not your usual coffee table architectural book. It can be bit heavy reading at the beginning, but nevertheless a good book. And if you are a student of Sri Lankan architecture it is a must.

Author-Dr. Anoma Pieris

'Londonbaba's' inteviews with Valentine (1-7). Here is the 1st one.