News, Events

Dr. Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena DPhil, MSc, CHE, FIH delivered a lecture in the Department of Architecture on the 25th of July on” New Directions for Tourism in Sri Lanka”. Dr. Jayawardena is the President of Chandi J. Associates Inc. Consulting, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Previously he was the Associate Dean of the Centre for Hospitality & Culinary Arts, George Brown College, Toronto, Canada and held professorships and visiting professorships in hospitality and tourism management in Canada, USA, UK, Switzerland, Jamaica, Guyana and Sri Lanka.

Prof. Spreckelmeyer visited the Department in July on an International exchange program for four weeks.

Dr Charles Doidge was happy to see the progress made in the Department of Architecture on 4th March 2013.

The Department of Architecture, University of Moratuwa took part in the Architect 2013 Exhibition held at BMICH Colombo from 19th to 23rd February 2013.

Board of Architectural Education (BAE) of Sri Lanka Institute of Architects (SLIA) re-validated Honors degree of Bachelor of Architecture of University of Moratuwa after a visitation by an accreditation panel on 11th January 2013.

The paper titled “Landslide mitigation - A novel Architectural and Engineering Intervention”, by Archt. Anishka Hettiarachchi, Senior Lecturer, Department of Architecture and U.K.D.C Dilshan, Level Five student of B. Arch Degree Programme, Department of Architecture was awarded “ Silver Paper” at the 4th Annual National Building Research Organisation (NBRO) Symposium conducted under the theme “Creating Disaster Resilient Built Environment “held at Ministry of Environment, Colombo on 13th December 2012.

A presentation by award winning Bangladeshi Architect Rafiq Azam was held on Saturday 24th November 2012 at the Department.

He is the principal architect of the architecture firm Shatotto, based in Dhaka, Bangladesh and has worked on projects in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Malaysia. He is also a teacher, a lecturer and a painter.

A group of students from the architecture department took part at the Architecture Students Jamboree held as part of the The 15th Asian Congress of Architects (ACA) convened by the Asian Regional Council of Architects (ARCASIA). It was held in Bali, Indonesia from 29th October to 2nd November 2012.

As the initial step the Arcnest team has already commenced on a projects under the social service pillar and the public awareness pillar, of building a house for an identified underprivileged family with four children in Polonaruwa using low cost material.

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