Shelton Wijayaratna is recorded as a Sri Lankan student enrolled at the Architectural Association (AA), London, in September 1954, joining the Third Year of the AA Diploma course and graduating in the summer of 1957. He returned to Colombo in September of that year and took up a role with the Public Works Department there. Three years later he returned to the AA, funded by the British Council, in order to attend the AA Department of Tropical Architecture’s post-graduate course. He subsequently returned to the Public Works Department, employed as an Assistant Architect within the Buildings Division. He was to remain in that position until at least 1969, before moving into private practice, serving as a director for ‘Shelton Wijayaratna, Williams & Associates, Chartered Architects, Engineers & Surveyors’ in the 1990s, by which time he had also been a President of the Institute of Chartered Architects of Ceylon.

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• Architectural Association Diploma Roll, 1924-1963. AA Archives
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• Architectural Association Membership List, 1961.
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