Intersections - Minnette de Silva exhibition catalogue we seek to empower ourselves

we seek to empower ourselves with the information and skills that enable self-reliance and equip us to care for our families and communities

blurring the relationship between commercial and personal work

is the power of her finely honed prose

seek to grasp and theorize this new iconomy of the visible

adulthood and death in the working communities of the West Country

Intersections - Minnette de Silva exhibition catalogue we seek to empower ourselvesWhen Minnette De Silva founded the Studio of Modern Architecture in Kandy, Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), in 1947, she was one of the first women in the world to establish a professional architectural practice as sole principal. Today, she is known for her designs and constructions of private residences and public institutions, settlement planning, experiments in building and handicraft, research, curation, and writing. Her practice treated architecture as