Decolonizing the Foundation of Tropical Architecture

There had long been architecture in the tropics, and then there was “tropical architecture.” As a conjuncture of modern architecture or international style and late-colonial developmentalism, formal tropical architecture flourished after World War II in West Africa, South Asia, and the Caribbean. The obvious, though usually neglected, antecedents could be found in the settler colonial tropics, especially in northern Australia and parts of Latin America. “The matter of tropical architecture ha

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