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    Minnette de Silva (Sinhala: මිනට් ද සිල්වා;Tamil: மினிட் டி சில்வா; 1 February 1918 – 24 November 1998) was an internationally recognised architect, considered...
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  • American educator Minnette de Silva (1918–1998), Sri Lankan architect Minnetta Theodora Taylor (1860–1911), American poet, suffragist Minnette Vári (born 1968)...
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  • by the historian-theorist Kenneth Frampton. Sri Lankan Architect Minnette De Silva was one of the pioneers in practicing this architecture style in the...
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  • Lanka's batik industry Ingrid Silva, Brazilian ballet dancer Maria José Marques da Silva, Portuguese architect Minnette de Silva, Sri Lankan Sinhalese architect...
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    obtain visas. Later members included Minnette de Silva, Walter Gropius, Alvar Aalto, Uno Åhrén, Louis Herman De Koninck (1929) and Fred Forbát. In 1941...
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  • celebration in 1908. They had two daughters Anil de Silva and Minnette de Silva and a son Fredrick de Silva. In promoting women's suffrage movement in the...
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  • Koon Hean (born 1957), award-winning urban planner and architect Minnette de Silva (1918–1998), first Sri Lankan female architect Xiu Zelan (1925–2016)...
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    architect Achyut Kanvinde - Architect Balkrishna Doshi - Architect Minnette de Silva - Architect Remo Fernandes - Musician, Singer-songwriter, Actor Divita...
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    needed] In Sri Lanka, Geoffrey Bawa pioneered Tropical Modernism. Minnette De Silva was an important Sri Lankan modernist architect.[citation needed]...
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  • Thero Minnette De Silva Oliver Weerasinghe U. N. Gunasekera A. N. S. Kulasinghe W. A. Silva Martin Wickramasinghe Karunasena Jayalath Lionel de Fonseka...
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  • Royal Gold Medal – Ernest Newton. Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: not held. February 1 – Minnette de Silva, Ceylonese modernist architect (died 1998)...
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  • (born 1943) Geoffrey Bawa (1919-2003) Homi Billimoria (died 1956) Minnette De Silva (1918-1998) Lal Dharmapriya Gamage (born 1954) Valentine Gunasekara...
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    styles. In the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, architects like Geoffrey Bawa and Minnette de Silva were leading trends in what is today known globally as ‘Tropical Modernism’...
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    (Stirling Prize, 2007) Nigel Coates Sir Peter Cook Edward Cullinan Minnette De Silva Carmen Dillon Jeremy Dixon Sir Philip Dowson Jane Drew Frank Duffy...
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    Koenigsberger, Theo Crosby, Norman and Kay Starrett, Geoffrey Knight, Minnette de Silva, Ian Robertson, Dennis Lennon, Sean Graham, John Godwin and Gillian...
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    Rogge Anna Seghers Harlow Shapley Mikhail Sholokhov Wacław Sierpiński Minnette de Silva Antoni Słonimski Olaf Stapledon Hugo Steinhaus Donald Ogden Stewart...
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  • Constitution which extended suffrage to all women over 21. Her sister Minnette de Silva was the well-known first woman architect of Sri Lanka. After her marriage...
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  • Californian "desert modernist" architect (born 1903) 24 November – Minnette de Silva, Sri Lankan modernist architect (born 1918) "Saint Paul's Cathedral...
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    husband of Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia. Their youngest child was Minnette de Silva the first Asian woman to qualify as an architect with the Royal Institute...
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    Hindus in several countries. He lives in a house architectured by Minnette De Silva. This house conceived from Segar's imagination when he was 12 years...
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    Lasantha Wickrematunge (category De Silva family)
    the grandnephew of George E. de Silva and Agnes de Silva, cousin of Minnette de Silva, Fredrick de Silva and Desmond de Silva. In his childhood, Wickrematunge...
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    hotel situated in Kandy, Sri Lanka owned by Helga de Silva Blow Perera, daughter of Fredrick de Silva. Gregory Peck, Peter Finch, William Holden, Mahatma...
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  • stayed there till 1967. He first worked for Sri Lankan architect Minnette de Silva and then was made partner in Geoffrey Bawa's studio in Colombo. Together...
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  • designing the five-storey reference and archival library. Geoffrey Bawa Minnette de Silva Valentine Gunasekara Justin Semarasekara Pieris, Anoma (2013). Architecture...
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    adjoining the existing heritage building. The project was designed by Minnette de Silva, the first Sri Lankan female architect. The building was completed...
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    in MARG, a Bombay journal of art and architecture. She, along with Minnette De Silva and Yasmeen Lari, was also actively involved in upliftment of people...
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  • Ed, ed. (2018). State of Sri Lankan Cities. UN Habitat. p. 77-78.} de Silva, Minnette (1998). The Life & Work of an Asian Woman Architect. Vol. 1. Smart...
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    English linguist and classical scholar who deciphered Linear B. Minnette de Silva, 80, Sri Lankan architect. Eprime Eshag, 80, Iranian economist. Guido...
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  • Allan Corduner, Frank Stallone, Roger Clinton Jr., Stephen Baldwin, Dylan Minnette, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Liam James, Theo Stevenson Lions for Lambs Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
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    singer and actor 1996 – Sana Minatozaki, Japanese singer 1996 – Dylan Minnette, American actor, musician and singer 1998 – Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, American...
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