Dr.Milinda Pathiraja is a co-founder of the Colombo firm Robust Architecture Workshop (RAW), an honorary senior fellow in the faculty of architecture, building and planning at the University of Melbourne (Australia), was a senior lecturer at the University of Moratuwa (Sri Lanka) from 2012 to 2016, and will be collaborating with the Laboratory of Construction and Architecture at ENAC/EPFL (Switzerland) from 2017. A doctoratein in architectural design from the University of Melbourne, Pathiraja’s practice RAW won the 2015 Global Silver Award for Sustainable Construction from the Lafarge-Holcim Foundation (Switzerland), and the 2016 Terra Award for earthen construction (France) under the category of cultural facilities. He was also one of the 88 architects invited to exhibit their work at the international pavilion of the 2016 Venice Biennale for architecture. Milinda believes in the power of architecture to integrate and contribute to the resolution of social, political and economic challenges.