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Designing Peradeniya Campus<\/span><\/h1>\n

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

Thuppahi\u2019s recent presentation of a striking photograph unearthed by Gerald Peiris which depicts world-famous dignitaries on their way to formally declare the University of Peradeniya open for the business of study and play has\u00a0 attracted pleasure as well as information on the hands that may have been at work on this design. The debate on the choice of site for a new University branch is a separate and complicated issue. The focus here is on the architectural and landscaping designs.\u00a0 As I indicated,\u00a0Shirley De Alwis<\/strong>\u00a0[also spelt D\u2019Alwis?] was the principal architect (and we require bio-data on this man). But, what else can we gather? Here are some preliminary responses.\u00a0The Editor, Thuppahi<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Note from Nathan Sivasambu in London, 19 April 2021:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cMichael, Thank you. I\u2019ll have it framed. I was Peradeniya at the time. Prince Philip declaring open the University at Senate House, \u201cwhich was designed on [in the style of] the Brazen Palace,<\/strong>\u201d said: it is more open than usual.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0<\/a>The Brazen Palace at Auradhapura in ruins and after restoration<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Note from Stanley \u2018Sam\u2019 Samarasinghe in Washington, 19 April 2021:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cThe Curator was\u00a0Mr. Dahmapath.<\/strong>\u00a0My hunch is that he retired in the 1970s. He was in overall charge of the campus landscape department. I do not think that position exists today.\u00a0 But I may be wrong on that.<\/span><\/p>\n

His assistant was\u00a0Mr. Kulasekera<\/strong>.\u00a0Mr Abeykoon<\/strong>\u00a0(nicknamed \u201cWal Abey\u201d not because he had a wayward character but because he was in-charge of keeping the grass in trim)<\/strong>\u00a0was the overseer who supervised the landscape workers.<\/strong>\u00a0(Abeykoon was a native of Uda Peradeniya. (His nephew SBS Abeykoon is Professor of Civil Engineering and served as VC in the early 2000s.) I do not know if Dahapaptha had any formal qualifications as a landscape architect and his role in designing the\u00a0 campus landscape. It is possible that Jennings and Shirley de Alwis may have consulted the Head of the Botanical Gardens.\u201d \u2026. Sam<\/span><\/div>\n
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Note from CM\u00a0 Madduma Bandara in the heart of Nuvarakalaviya, 20 April 2021:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cDear Mike, It is indeed a historic pic. At this event, the Queen reminded us about the Kandyan Convention and its validity! even as late as the early 1950s!!\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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