Wahjono Pribadi is recorded as an Indonesian student, funded by the British Council, enrolled in the 1961-62 post-graduate course run by the Architectural Association Department of Tropical Studies. Among the coursework projects he undertook was the task of designing (together with colleagues A.G.T. Spiff and S.V. Ekbote) a new capital city at Gaberones, ‘Buchuanaland’, now Botswana. Two photographs are held in the collection of the London Museum showing Pribadi with his Gaberones work and being presented his graduation certificate by Sir Andrew Cohen, the head of the UK Department for Technical Co-operation (and former Governor of Uganda, 1952-57). Details of his subsequent career are not known to us beyond the fact that by 1965 he had returned to Indonesia and had been appointed to design the Pusat Dokumentasi dan Informasi Ilmiah (the National Centre for Scientific Documentation and Information), in Djakata.

 Sources

• Architectural Association Student Register, 1961-62. AA Archives
• Architectural Association Council Minutes, 19th February, 1962. AA Archives
• London Museum, Henry Grant Photographs Collection, HG2149/78.3; HG2149/18.1
• 20 Years of Indonesian Independence, Vol. 4. Department of Information of the Republic of Indonesia, 1965, p271