Anura Ratnavibhushana is an architect, author and lecturer. He was an apprentice of Geoffrey Bawa and Ulrik Plesner at the firm Edwards Reid & Begg in the 1960s. In 1969, he graduated in architecture from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen and worked in Edwards Reid & Begg with Bawa for 8 years. He established his practice in 1996 and has been a mentor for some of today’s brightest Sri Lankan architects. His versatile work and accolades appear in his autobiography Creating Simplicity (2009). His limited edition book 'Timeless Houses: Architecture for Living in Sri Lanka (2014)' deals with the poetic qualities of architecture through his own work. His architecture has been featured in several international books and journals. He is retired but continues to write, lecture and tutor students.