Wijesinghe Ratnayake is recorded as a Sri Lankan student enrolled on the 1967-68 postgraduate ‘Educational Building’ course run by the Architectural Association’s (AA) Department of Development and Tropical Studies, in London.  Wijesinghe successfully completed the course and was awarded the AA Diploma in Tropical Architecture in December 1968. Details of his earlier education and subsequent career are not yet known to us beyond the fact that by 1969 his corresponding address was on Malay Street, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Sources

• Architectural Association Student Register, 1945-71. AA Archives
• Architectural Association Council Minutes, 9th December, 1968. AA Archives
• Architectural Association Membership Register, 1969. AA Archives