Chandigarh’s gridded layout and heroic concrete forms were the antithesis of Edwin Lutyens’ ponderous New Delhi ... social realities. Post-independence Ghana pursued a similar path, with the ...

Post-independence, India's first Prime Minister Nehru's modernist vision initially dominated India's architectural landscape. The commissioning of Le Corbusier to design Chandigarh—the new ...

But it’s also intimately connected to postcolonial independence and nation-building – in India and Ghana and far beyond. And it’s being reevaluated in contemporary architecture, especially ...

The Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum showcases the legacy of tropical modernism in Ghana and India.. The architectural style ...