CONTENTS
Travelling with Anjalendran | Michael Ondaatje 6
Preface 10
AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
The Classical Period 12
The Medieval Period 18
The British Period 24
Independence 31
THE MEASURED DRAWING PROJECT
Ancient Buildings and Landscapes 38
Sinhalese Religious Buildings of the Medieval Period 56
Ambalamas and Rest Houses 70
Buddhist Temples of the Colonial Period 78
Hindu Vernacular Buildings 98
Sinhalese Manor Houses 108
The Houses by the Road 122
Dutch and British Period Furniture 132
Some Buildings of the British Period 142
Around Independence 160
Pioneers of Modernism 168
Geoffrey Bawa 178
Geoffrey Bawa's Circle 184
Some Sri Lankan Gardens of the 20th Century 196
PROJECT DRAWINGS FROM THE ANJALENDRAN STUDIO 210
Maps 236
Acknowledgments and Picture Credits 238
Bibliography and Glossary 239