When Minnette De Silva founded the Studio of Modern Architecture in Kandy, SriLanka, in 1947, she was one of the first women in the world to establish a professionalarchitectural practice as sole principal. Today, she is known for her designs andconstructions encompassing housing projects, public institutions, settlement planning,and experiments in fabrication and handicraft design. Her practice treats architectureas a lived experience and a contemporary expression of the heterogeneous pasts ofits makers.This book by architectural historian Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi offers an incisive, richlyillustrated introduction to De Silva?s practice. Exploring a variety of built projects, itfocusses on intersections in De Silva?s practice designs relating to landscape, settlement,and handicraft. Photography, drawings, archival materials, and extracts from De Silva?sself-published autobiography describe the ways De Silva combined materials, themes,and narratives drawn from various contexts in Sri Lanka and India with techniquesinformed by international modernism to create a wholly distinctive, critically engagedaesthetic programme and set of values. Minnette de Silva: Intersections offers a practicaland illuminating primer to the thinking and making of one of the twentieth century?sforemost architects.Written and researched with Methmini Kariyakarawana