Born in Ceylon (today Sri Lanka) in 1927, Sarangu De Silva is recorded as graduating from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, c1957. He is then returned to Ceylon, leaving the Port of London on 10th October, 1958. He found employment as an Assistant Architect in the Buildings Division of the Public Works Department, in Colombo. However, in 1963 he returned to the UK and enrolled on the postgraduate course run by the Architectural Association’s Department of Tropical Studies, in London. Upon completion of the course he appears to have returned once more to Colombo and is noted in the RIBA Kalendar of 1965 as still working as an Assistant Architect within the Public Works Department. Details of his subsequent career are not yet known to us.
Sources
- Architectural Association Council Minutes, 16th March, 1964. AA Archives
- Architectural Association Student Register 1945-1972, AA Archives
- The National Archives; Kew, England; BT27 Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and Successors: Outwards Passenger Lists; Reference Number: Series BT27-
- Ferguson’s Ceylon Directory, 1959, p.237
- Kalendar of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 1965, p85
