Main entry:

Turner, Christopher, 1972- author, interviewer.

Title & Author:

Tropical modernism : architecture and independence / Christopher Turner.

Publication:

London : V&A Publishing, 2024.
[New York] : ABRAMS, 2024.
©2024

Description:

224 pages : illustrations (black and white and color), maps ; 22 x 27 cm

Notes:
Accompanies an exhibition of the same name held March 2-September 22, 2024 at Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Includes bibliographical references, bibliography (pages 216-219) and index.
Foreword / Tristram Hunt -- Introduction : architecture and power in West Africa and India -- The invention of tropical modernism : the African experiment -- Interview : Ola Uduku -- Interview : Samia Nkrumah -- Chandigarh : temples of New India -- Interview : Vikramaditya Prakash -- Interview : Jeet Malhotra -- 'Africa must unite or perish!' : beacons for a free Africa -- Interview Henry Wellington -- Interview : John Owusu Addo -- Nehruvian modernism : a tool for national regeneration -- Interview : Ram Rahman -- Interview : Raj Rewal -- Epilogue : a future for tropical modernism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Picture credits.

Exhibitions:

First published by V&A Publishing to accompany the exhibition 'Tropical modernism: architecture and independence' on view from 2 March to 22 September 2024 at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Summary:

Emerging in the death throes of colonial rule, the story of Tropical Modernism is one of politics and power, decolonization and defiance. Its leading proponents, British architects Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry, adapted a utopian Bauhaus-derived Modernist aesthetic to hot and humid conditions. After Independence, Tropical Modernism was championed by leaders including Jawaharlal Nehru and Kwame Nkrumah as a symbol of freedom, progressiveness and internationalism in monumental projects such as Chandigarh in Punjab planned by Le Corbusier and Black Star Square in Accra designed by Victor Adegbite. Scrutinizing the colonial narratives surrounding Tropical Modernism, and foregrounding the experience of African and Indian practitioners, this book reassesses an architectural style which has increasing relevance in today's changing climate.

ISBN:

9781838510558 (paperback)
1838510559 (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture, Modern Exhibitions.
Architecture, Modern India Exhibitions
Modern movement (Architecture) Exhibitions.
Architecture, Tropical Africa, West History 20th century Exhibitions.
Architecture, Tropical India History 20th century Exhibitions.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) Expositions.
Architecture tropicale Afrique occidentale Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Architecture tropicale Inde Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
ARCHITECTURE / General.
Architecture, Modern.
Modern movement (Architecture)
Architecture, Tropical.
History.
Africa.
India.
West Africa.

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
interviews.
Exhibition catalogs.
Interviews.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Hunt, Tristram, 1974- writer of foreword.
Uduku, Ola, 1963- interviewee.
Nkrumah, Samia, interviewee.
Prakash, Vikramaditya, interviewee.
Malhotra, Jeet, interviewee.
Wellington, H. Nii-Adziri, interviewee.
Addo, John Owusu, interviewee.
Rahman, Ram, interviewee.
Rewal, Raj, interviewee.
Victoria and Albert Museum, host institution.
V&A Publishing, publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library main
Copy: 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main 320507
Call No.: 320507
Copy: 2
Status: Available