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Minnette de Silva
Minnette de Silva (1 February 1918, Kandy - 24 November 1998, Kandy) was an internationally recognized architect, considered the pioneer of the modern architectural style in Sri Lanka.〔(Obituary: Minnette de Silva ), ''The Independent'', 14 December 1998〕 De Silva was a fellow of the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects.
Minnette de Silva was the first Sri Lankan woman to be trained as an Architect and the first South Asian woman to be elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)in 1948. De Silva was also the first Asian representative of CIAM in 1947 and was one of the founding members of the Architectural publication Marg. Later in her life, she was awarded the SLIA Gold Medal for her contribution to Architecture in particular her pioneering work developing a 'regional modernism for the tropics'.
==Early life in Ceylon==
Minnette was born on February 1, 1918 in Kandy to a prominent MP, George E. de Silva and Agnes Nell de Silva, a universal suffrage activist. Minnette was educated at St. Mary's, in Brighton, England, and returned to Ceylon in 1929. She was not able to train as an architect in Colombo, so she had to persuade her father and her maternal uncle Andreas Nell to allow her to travel to Bombay to train at the J. J. School, Bombay.
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