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February 7th 2026
Alexander’s A Pattern Language illustrate various social and architectural environments that foster human connection and communal life.
January 23rd 2026
Explores the complex social and economic forces that created the urban underclass, moving beyond simple racial explanations to examine structural shifts in the American economy.
January 20th 2026
This explores the informal housing sector within the context of developing nations, specifically focusing on how impoverished communities self-construct their environments.
January 5th 2026
The complex history and ongoing challenges of urban development and social housing in Sri Lanka. From the colonial vision of Colombo as the “Garden City of the East” to the modern-day proliferation of “vertical slums.”
January 3rd, 2026
In the contemporary world, architects are increasingly flooded with place-based data. However, while Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have become standard in fields like geography and landscape architecture, they are not yet a core component of the global architecture curriculum. This post explores how integrating GIS can move architecture from intuitive guessing toward data-informed design.
December 20th, 2025
Thinking of pursuing architecture in Sri Lanka? The strict regulatory framework you must navigate and the intense personal reality of the educational journey.
December 4th, 2025
What happens when middle-class families merge into lower-income settlements? This podcast explores how social dynamics—from role modeling and aspirations to economic spillovers—can transform marginalized communities into thriving socio-economic and architectural spaces.
December 1st, 2025
The story of Colombo’s Urban Regeneration Project (URP) and the broader history of housing in Sri Lanka. From colonial-era settlements to Premadasa’s revolutionary Million Houses Programme, and finally to the controversial high-rise relocations of the 2010s, we explore how the promise of “development” often came at the cost of dispossession.
November 16th, 2025
Sri Lanka’s urban housing crisis is getting worse—and for many middle-income families, the dream of owning a home is slipping out of reach. In this episode of Copilot Podcasts, we dive deep into the numbers, the policies, and the emerging solutions shaping the future of housing in Sri Lankan cities.
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