Loké Journal examines the art of making as an inclusive, cross-cultural, and global pursuit, offering nuanced perspectives on the complex and varied realities of international design production. Written primarily by practicing architects, it draws connections between distinct and intersecting spaces of making while challenging dominant narratives in architecture and design criticism.
Erandi de Silva (AA Dip, ARB) is a Sri Lankan-British Architect and Editor, based in Ghana.
With her project Loké, she explores themes of liberation through both building and writing. The in-house publication Loké Journal examines the art of making as an inclusive, cross-cultural, and global pursuit, offering nuanced perspectives on the complex and varied realities of international design production. Written primarily by practicing architects, it draws connections between distinct and intersecting spaces of making while challenging dominant narratives in architecture and design criticism. Similar themes are reflected in her building projects in Ghana and Rwanda.
Previously, Erandi was a founding editor of BI, an early online experimental architectural writing project and was the Project Editor of the Phaidon title: 20th Century World Architecture, a book that expands the Modern and postmodern canon beyond the established Western scope, presenting a global view of the last century’s important architectural works. More recently, her writings on East and West African architecture and design have appeared in periodicals such as Domus, Dwell, and The Architectural Review. She was a panellist at the Architect's Newspaper symposium on contemporary architecture criticism last year in Venice.
Her architectural proposals are discussed in Bidoun's With/Without and Keller Easterling's Extrastatecraft. She has lectured on her work at several institutions, including the University of Rwanda and the Toronto Metropolitan University.
She is a graduate of London’s Architectural Association.