‘Tropical Modernism’ Surveys Climate-Response Design in Post-Colonial West Africa and India

Using drawings, photography, models and more, an architecture 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.

‘Tropical Modernism’ Surveys Climate-Response Design in Post-Colonial West Africa and India
Using drawings, photography, models and more, an architecture 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.