Minnette de Silva
Subtitle: Watapuluwa Housing Scheme
By: by Rupert Fennessy
Contributors: Siddiqi, Anooradha Iyer, teacher
Publisher: Rupert Fennessy
Published: 2021
Place of publication: [New York, NY]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Women architects; Sri Lankans; Students; COVID-19 (Disease); Popular works; Coronavirus infections; Social aspects; Quarantine; Columbia University; Barnard College
Description: "Against the backdrop of great social and political change in Sri Lanka, in what ways did Minnette De Silva unify a community through her work on the Watapuluwa Housing Scheme?" Rupert Fennessy utilizes primary and secondary historical resources, contemporary newspaper articles and De Silva's text “The Life and Work of an Asian Woman Architect” to create an archive of De Silva's architecture career and her local and nationwide impact.
Notes: Printed from a pdf.

This zine or zine-inspired creation was made for Anooradha Siddiqi's History of Architecture and Feminism taught at Barnard College in spring 2021.

This zine was made during the COVID-19 pandemic, but is not explicitly about the virus.

Includes bibliography.

Freedoms and restrictions are not stated. Assume copyright.

Pdf; Siddiqi, Anooradha; 2021.