Built-Environment - Sri Lanka
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Item Editorial(2000) Dayaratne, R.Item Environment-behavior research and the practice of architecture:paradigms and paradoxes(Sri Lanka Institute of Architects. Colombo, 2002) Dayaratne, R.Item Culture and built-form in the making;an examination of the Asian and Sri Lankan urban space(Sri Lanka Institute of Architects. Colombo, 2000) Dayaratne, R.Item Towards place-sensitive urban interventions:an examination of the significant characteristics of place in selected urban nodes in Colombo(Sri Lanka Institute of Architects. Colombo, 1998) Rajapakse, A.; Dayaratne, R."place"is a concept that has received recent attention among architects,planers and urban designers.It is seen as a useful concept to exmine and to be employed for planned interventions in the built-environment.place is a spatial entity as well as a social-psychological entity.Its characteristics therefore are intertwines with these aspects.What are the significant refinements of these characteristics that will elevate the quality of places and transform them to memorable cherished places?This was a research question that prompted an inquiry into the urban spaces wherby an attempt was made to recognize and emphasize the significant characteristics of place that will enable place-sensitive planned interventions in jthe city.The study based in examined in detail the characteristics of two selected places that mark them special and significant.The study proposes a theoretical consturct of those characteristics that must be enhanced in planned interventions.Item Teaching architecture as an intervention in thinking:the Moratuwa experiment revisited(Sri Lanka Institute of Architects. Colombo, 2001) Dayaratne, R.Apart from architecture itself,architecture students learn many other things during their course of studies,both factual and otherwise.this is indeed unique since most other disciplines may not be able to claim the same about their courses of study.obviously,as a student ,one may acqire knowledge unrelated to the subject sthey study in the process of maturity and growing up in every discipline ,but most academics would not necessarily consider it a great achievement that their students have learned nothing in their discipline but other things during the course of study .In one year of studies in architecture at the University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka in fact,quite the contrary was happening and the students took great pride that they are not leaning architecture lper se,at least in one year of their 6 year course.A recent research uncovered that the students believe they learned a great deal of "thinking"but very little in architecture.This paper examines a student evaluation of the t4eaching/learing practice that prevailed in the 5 th year studio in 1998 at the Department of Architecture at the University of Moratuwa ,which is a part of a lprogramme known as the Moratuwa Experiment and discusses its impact upon the student'thinking.