{"id":119435,"date":"2023-08-11T18:18:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T18:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=119435"},"modified":"2023-08-13T10:34:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T10:34:14","slug":"the-mulacari-of-peradeniya-university-shirley-de-alwis-by-michael-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/the-mulacari-of-peradeniya-university-shirley-de-alwis-by-michael-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mulacari of Peradeniya University: Shirley De Alwis-by Michael Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mulacari of Peradeniya University: Shirley De Alwis-by Michael Roberts<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

\"Michael<\/p>\n

Source:<\/span><\/strong>Thuppahis<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

KNO Dharmadasa,\u00a0in\u00a0Hanthana Night<\/em>, produced by the \u00dcniversity 0f Peradeniya Alumni Associatio Western Australia Chapter, August 2023<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The word\u00a0Mulacari\u00a0<\/em>in the Kandyan period of Sri Lankan history meant \u201cthe chief architect\u201d. These would have been the great architects of yore like the one who designed the \u201cBrazen Palace\u201d (Lovamahapaya<\/em>) during the Anuradhapura period. But we have no information about their titles or names.\u00a0Shirley De Alwis (1898-1952)\u00a0who was appointed the \u201cUniversity Architect\u201d in 1946, was the man who designed the eight original Halls of Residence -Marrs, Jayatilaka, Arunachalam, Hilda Obeysekara, James Peiris, Marcus Fernando, Sangamitta and Ramanathan<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0He also designed the Senate Building \u2014 which was modelled on the Brazen Place, although on a modest scale<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0The Science and Arts Faculty buildings as well as the Geography Building are also creations of Shirley De Alwis.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, the Peradeniya University is considered one among the ten most beautiful university campuses in the whole world. That distinction owes largely to the designing of its buildings and the site plan. The buildings, while retaining some vital features of Medieval and ancient Sri Lankan architecture blend neatly with the hilly terrain of the lower Hantane range.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Shirley De Alwis himself has written an informative article about the whole plan. We should note that\u00a0the decision to site \u201cCeylon\u2019s first university\u201d as De Alwis called it, at Peradeniya was taken by the State Council in 1938.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0The land known as \u201cNew Peradeniya Estate\u201d, an abandoned tea and rubber plantation, had been earmarked and bought for the purpose after a long \u201cbattle of sites\u201d as to whether to site the university in Colombo or elsewhere. After the property was acquired, the government appointed Sir Patrick Abercrombie, a world-famous town planner, who was then an academic in the University of London, to prepare the site plan. He was originally at the University of Liverpool from where De Alwis too had graduated.\u00a0 Shirley De Alwis wrote \u201cThe dominant note in the layout is the traditional Sinhalese openness and spaciousness as found at Anuradhapura\u2026\u00a0\u00a0 Anuradhapura has often been quoted as showing the same grouping and planning as ancient Greece.\u2019\u2019 (\u201cCeylon\u2019s first University\u201d in S \u00a0Shanmuganathan ed.\u00a0Pageant of Lanka<\/u><\/em><\/strong>, Colombo, 1948)<\/span><\/p>\n

It is opportune here to quote from Sir Ivor Jennings how he visualised the university in his mind in 194 \u2014 nearly a decade before the buildings had come up: \u201cThe first public holiday after my arrival in Ceylon in March 1941 was Good Friday and I seized the opportunity to pay my first visit to Peradeniya.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0He reached the site and wandered through the jungle and reached the place where the Senate Building was to be sited.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSitting on a tree stump on the bank of the Mahaweli Ganga I spread Sir Abercrombie\u2019s site plan before me. \u00a0I began at last to see the magnificence of the scheme. There was no doubt about it, Mr. D.R. Wijewardene was right. This could be a great university<\/strong>.\u201d\u00a0(The Road to Peradeniya,<\/u><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Colombo 2005, p.178) It needs mention here that Mr. Wijewardene, the owner of the Lake House Group of News Papers, was a strong supporter, if not the sponsor of the Peradeniya site, as against Colombo and other sites.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sir Ivor next wanted to get a \u201clong distance view\u201d of the campus and drove across the river along the Gampola Road, paused at a site where he could thus view the campus. \u201cIn a few years\u2019 time the view from the Nanu Oya bridge would be one of the most famous in the world,\u201d he wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n

As we learn from another source, the shape and form of the university buildings had already been designed by this time \u2013 that they were to follow traditional Sinhalese architecture. It is reported in a short write-up with 8 illustrations of the proposed university buildings \u2013 mainly the Arts Faculty buildings, the Administrative Block and the proposed Convocation Hall (which never came up). The report goes on, \u201cthe following drawings have been prepared by Professor L.P Abercrombie and Mr. A.C Holliday, joint consulting architects of the University Planning Scheme, with whom was associated Mr. Shirley De Alwis, Assistant Architect of the Public Works Dept. who was specially seconded for the duty. \u00a0The drawings were released to the\u00a0Ceylon Daily News,<\/em>\u00a017th<\/sup>\u00a0July 1940 issue by the Minister of Communications and Public works Mr. J.L. Kotalawela. (Peradeniya: The Founding of a University<\/u>\u00a0, Vol 1, ed. A.T. Alwis, University of Peradeniya 2013 p. 297)<\/span><\/p>\n

Undoubtedly, the idea of using traditional Sri Lankan architectural motifs in planning the buildings came from Shirley De Alwis.\u00a0 I say this because Sir Ivor Jennings writing the Obituary of De Alwis said: \u201cIn larger measure, the buildings are his design and certainly all the details his.\u201d (Quoted in A.T. Alwis ed.\u00a0Op. cit,<\/em>\u00a0p.422).<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is how Sir Ivor expressed it more dramatically: \u201cHe died knowing that, centuries hence, young men and women of his own people, would ask themselves who built this university and as universities are proud of their history, and do not let it die, somebody would answer, A man named Shirley De Alwis.\u201d (ibid).<\/span><\/p>\n

The unmistakable Sri Lankan feature of the Kandyan roofs and the details in the grills in the University buildings are all part and parcel of traditional architecture borrowed from a wide range of buildings from Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa to the Kandyan period.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Public buildings in the colony that was Ceylon until this time had been designed by Europeans, using European models as evident in the law courts at Hulftsdorp, the State Council building, which later became the Parliament building and yet later, the Presidential Secretariat. But this time, in creating \u201cCeylon\u2019s first National University\u201d (as De Alwis identified it) there was a decisive change \u2013 that is to reflect the national cultural heritage, , to quote Sir Ivor again, \u201ca man named Shirley De Alwis was responsible for that step.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Emeritus Professor K N O Dharmadasa is a product of the University of Ceylon and a well-respected academic living in Sri Lanka.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh enrote to the opening of the Senate building \u2026. which the Dukein his typical acumen & wit, declared \u201cto be more open than usual\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Mulacari of Peradeniya University: Shirley De Alwis-by Michael Roberts Source:Thuppahis KNO Dharmadasa,\u00a0in\u00a0Hanthana Night, produced by the \u00dcniversity 0f Peradeniya Alumni Associatio Western Australia Chapter, August 2023 The word\u00a0Mulacari\u00a0in the Kandyan period of Sri Lankan history meant \u201cthe chief architect\u201d. 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