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Valentine Gunasekara (born 31 January 1931) is a Sri Lankan architect considered to be one of the most influential for architecture during Sri Lanka's post-independent period. He studied in London and became a modernist architect. There is a book about him.〔''Imagining Modernity. The Architecture of Valentine Gunasekara'', by Anoma Pieris (Pannipitiya, Stamford Lake (Pvt) Ltd and Colombo: Social Scientists Association, 2007), 174 pages.〕 ==Personal life== Gunasekara was born to an elite Catholic family in colonial Ceylon. His father, Danny Gunasekara was a landed proprietor who had lost his wealth in the Great Depression of the 1920s. He died when Valentine was 2½ years old, and Valentine's mother had to raise a family of eight children on her own. Gunasekara was educated at the Royal College, Colombo , which was essentially a school modelled on a Victorian grammar school. It was predominantly attended by the children of the rich and privileged of Ceylonese society of the time. Gunasekara married Ranee Jayamanne in 1962, and they had eight children. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Valentine Gunasekara」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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