Tropical Modernism was an architectural style developed in the warm, humid areas of West Africa in the 1940s. After independence, India and Ghana with architects Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew adopted this style as a symbol of modernity and progress, distinct from colonial culture. Initially this style was imposed by the British Empire after the Second World War in large public and social projects that sought to offset demands for independence and stimulate trade between Great Britain and its colonies. Despite these origins, after independence in India and throughout Africa, Tropical Modernism came to represent the modernity and progressiveness of these new countries. Working with scholars, architects and filmmakers, the exhibition chronicles a moment of transition in which new freedoms were won and how the break with the colonial past developed through art and architecture.
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