David Robson : Minnette de Silva: The Life and Work of an Asian Woman Architect
Informations pratiques :
- Le 26/4/2016 à 18:30.
- Venue: AA School London, Lecture Hall.
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Extrait :
Minnette de Silva (1918-1998) was the daughter of a prominent Sinhalese politician called George de Silva and grew up in Kandy during the last decades of the British Raj. Having set her mind on becoming an architect she studied in Bombay during the War and worked for a time with Otto Koenigsberger in Mysore. She was a student at the AA between 1945 and 1948 and became the first Asian woman to become an associate of the RIBA.
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