Answer the following about Minnette de Silva, the first Sri Lankan woman architect, for 10 points each.
[10e] As the youngest and first Asian delegate to a meeting of the International Congress of Modern Architecture, de Silva befriended this architect, whose later works in the Indian subcontinent include designing Chandigarh.
ANSWER: Le Corbusier [or Charles-Édouard Jeanneret]
[10m] De Silva highlighted traditional crafts by employing artisans to create dumbaras, a Sri Lankan type of these decorative items, for many of her houses. Traditional Japanese homes feature a sort of these items called tatami.
ANSWER: mats [accept flooring; reject “rugs”]
[10h] Although de Silva’s style is often dubbed “tropical modernism,” she preferred to call it a “modern” form of this term. Her use of this term predates the popularization of a similar term in an essay subtitled “six points for an architecture of resistance” by nearly 25 years.
ANSWER: regionalism [or modern regionalism or critical regionalism]
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