Lunchtime Lecture: Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence

This talk is part of the V&A Academy Lunchtime Lecture Series. No booking is required.

Talk
  • Thursday, 13 June 2024 at V&A South Kensington
  • V&A South Kensington
  • Past event
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  • V&A South Kensington

    Cromwell Road
    London, SW7 2RL

  • The Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre

  • Free event

Lunchtime Lecture: Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence photo

Tropical Modernism was a colonial architecture: through an examination of the context of British imperialism and decolonial struggle, this talk by the exhibition curator seeks to look at the history of Tropical Modernism before and after Independence in Ghana and India, and show something of the politics behind the concrete.

Dr Christopher Turner is the Keeper of Art, Architecture, Photography & Design at the V&A.

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Header image: Film still of Scott House, Accra by Kenneth Scott - for 'Tropical Modernism - Architecture and Independence', © Victoria and Albert Museum, London