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Explore the history of Tropical Modernism in architecture at the Victoria & Albert Museum exhibition. Learn about the movement's colonial roots and post-colonial aspirations.
A multimedia exhibition at V&A Kensington examines how Western ideas were reimagined as a form of post-colonial nationhood that combined European practice with indigenous traditions of making and design.
My childhood in Hong Kong was shaped by a particular style of building: market halls with brise-soleils sheltering us from the glare; housing-block stairwells with perforated blockwork letting in dappled light and breeze; classrooms accessed from open-air decks, with clerestory windows cross-ventilating the stale, sticky air. In this sub-tropical ex-British colony, these features defined its
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The V&A presents 'Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence', a deep dive into the 1940s architectural influences within West Africa and India