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Hetan Shah@HetanShah2 Mar 2024
I went to the Tropical Modernism exhibition at the @V_and_A. This is a great review by @edwinheathcote which really gets across what it is about and why it’s worth a visit on.ft.com/3SXunaW
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Tropical Modernism at the @V_and_A. Highly recommended.
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Tropical Modernism review – a complex story of power, freedom, craft… and cows dlvr.it/T3XxS0

Tropical Modernism review – a complex story of power, freedom, craft… and cows

Modernist architecture’s arrival in India and colonial west Africa, and how, post-independence, a new generation of local architects made the style their own, is explored in an intriguing new...

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@designboom4 Mar 2024
. @V_and_A examines tropical modernism as a guide for the future in major london exhibition designboom.com/architecture/…
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Tropical Modernism @V_and_A opens Saturday: "a bold exhibition that takes on ideas of colonialism, post-colonialism and how architecture and aesthetics can operate as both propaganda and a tool for liberation" @amahrose @wallpapermag wallpaper.com/architecture/v…

‘Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence’ at the V&A is a bold exploration

London’s V&A presents ‘Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence’, a deep dive into 1940s architectural influences within West Africa and India

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I think the Tropical Modernism at the V&A show terrific, so many fascinating buildings and a revelatory exercise in uncovering the Ghanaian & Indian architects who used architectural Modernism in nationalist programmes. Go! – at London, England
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Tropical Modernism opens TODAY! "An engrossing exhibition shows how newfound freedoms in West Africa and India inspired an optimistic, independent design approach." Smart and engaged review by @edwinheathcote @FinancialTimes ft.com/content/2c98e465-8041… via @ft
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I wrote about Giani Rattan Singh, the model-maker who built Chandigarh in miniature, and the 95-year-old John Owusu Addo, one of Ghana's first modernists, for @V_and_A magazine. Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence now open
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"V&A's 'Tropical Modernism' is a richly historical show at the 2023 Venice Biennale, perfectly aligned with the overarching theme of inclusion &...a fascinating insight into the shape-shifting interplay between modern architecture and colonialism" @V_and_A wallpaper.com/architectture/…

V&A's Tropical Modernism: a vivid look at architecture culture in newly independent Ghana

Subtitled ‘Architecture and Power in West Africa’, V&A's 'Tropical Modernism' is a richly historical show at the 2023 Venice Biennale, perfectly aligned with the overarching theme of inclusion and...

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My blog on Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Power in West Africa, the @V_and_A's pavilion @la_Biennale in collaboration with @AASchool and @KNUSTGH vam.ac.uk/blog/museum-life/t…
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@V_and_A's Venice exhibition restores African architects to the story of Tropical Modernism ft.com/content/5b5c1d86-6a53…

Venice exhibition restores African architects to the story of Tropical Modernism

The V&A shows how a ‘colonial’ style in fact always had diverse influences and practitioners

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V&A. Serious and interesting overview of tropical modernism. But it needs an hour on its own and I'm flagging.
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Take a peek, last day tomorrow... Magic lantern show, AA Archives' 'Critical Spaces' show, Tottenham Ct Rd
Come, challenge the archive - last day tomorrow - AA Archives' 'Critical Spaces' show, Tottenham Ct Rd...
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Seriously thinking of marketing this as wallpaper - lantern slide show @ AA Archives' 'Critical Spaces' exhibition, Tottenham Court Road.... Last day tomorrow (17th June)
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