Christopher Turner

Emerging in the death throes of colonial rule, the story of Tropical Modernism is one of politics and power, decolonisation 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...