A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Madhura Prematilleke (Team Architrave)
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Madhura Prematilleke practises with his colleagues at Team Architrave in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and considers himself an Asian Modernist in search of what he calls a ‘robust architecture’ that ‘can accommodate ‐ and indeed thrive upon ‐ the manner in which it is used, misused or otherwise “Asianised”’. This view of Modernism stems from the fact that, as Prematilleke explains, ‘in a cultural landscape such as ours in Sri Lanka ‐ where urban contexts are chaotic, tastes are wildly heterogeneous, and usage of buildings abrasive, Modernism, in particular, with its aspirations of purity and lucidity, is hardly able to cope’. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Madhura Prematilleke (Team Architrave)
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Madhura Prematilleke practises with his colleagues at Team Architrave in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and considers himself an Asian Modernist in search of what he calls a ‘robust architecture’ that ‘can accommodate ‐ and indeed thrive upon ‐ the manner in which it is used, misused or otherwise “Asianised”’. This view of Modernism stems from the fact that, as Prematilleke explains, ‘in a cultural landscape such as ours in Sri Lanka ‐ where urban contexts are chaotic, tastes are wildly heterogeneous, and usage of buildings abrasive, Modernism, in particular, with its aspirations of purity and lucidity, is hardly able to cope’. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Madhura Prematilleke (Team Architrave)
Architectural Design ; 77 ; 127
2007-11-01
1 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English