New V&A show examines Tropical Modernism's legacy across West Africa
Archinect
JANUARY 8, 2024
London’s Victoria and Albert Museum is set to open an exhibition on the modernist architectural style that emerged in 1940s West Africa.
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Archinect
JANUARY 8, 2024
London’s Victoria and Albert Museum is set to open an exhibition on the modernist architectural style that emerged in 1940s West Africa.
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Archinect
APRIL 24, 2023
London's Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) has shared details of its new Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Power in West Africa exhibition that will be included in the upcoming 2023 Venice Biennale in May.
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Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence at V&A After debuting at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum presents its Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence exhibition in London from March 2nd to September 22nd, 2024.
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London's Victoria and Albert Museum has launched its Tropical Modernism exhibition, which highlights the architectural movement's evolution from colonial import to a "tool of nation building". The photography is courtesy of the Victoria & Albert Museum.
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Top image: courtesy of the Design Museum Life Cycles: The Materials of Contemporary Design 2 September 2023 to 7 July 2024, USA Objects intended to illustrate the circularity of materials feature in the Life Cycles: The Materials of Contemporary Design exhibition by New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Photo by Studio Periphery.
Bustler
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London's Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) has shared details of its new Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Power in West Africa exhibition that will be included in the upcoming 2023 Venice Biennale in May. Read the full post on Bustler
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Submit your entry by midnight London time on 30 May to avoid late entry fees. His work is held in permanent collections in museums such as the Museum of Modern Art , V&A , Design Museum , M+ Museum , and Museum für Gestaltung Zürich. Dezeen Awards 2024, in partnership with Bentley , is open for entries.
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The Netherlands -based architect has worked on international projects spanning theatres , museums and libraries informed by local people, culture and climate. London-based designer and artist Bethan Laura Wood will be an interiors judge Joining Millen on the interiors judging panel will be British designer and artist Wood.
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Submit your entry before midnight London time on 1 June to avoid late entry fees. Martin Brudnizki is an interior architect and the founder of Martin Brudnizki Design Studio Interior architect Brudnizki is the founder of the London and New York-based office Martin Brudnizki Design Studio.
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V&A East museum building Stratford, Victoria & Albert Museum East London Property Photos. V&A East museum building in Stratford, London. V&A East Museum hits major construction milestone as it tops out in Stratford’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. 14 Dec 2021. metres long.
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British studios Gibson Thornley Architects and Purcell have completed the V&A Photography Centre in London , which includes a double-height library and a walk-in camera obscura.
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London Design Festival is back with a bumper programme spanning the city. Ace Corner, 149-150 Shoreditch High Street, London, E1 6HU ‘Aura’ by Pablo Valbuena at St Paul’s Cathedral Image: London Design Festival City of London See St. Visitors can also create their own objects from mycelium at a workshop.
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He won a studentship at the South London Technical School of Art in 1895. Once he was in London, it did not take him long to become a prominent architectural sculptor. Among other work, he produced sculpture for the facade of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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Katrantzou is a Greek fashion designer, currently based in London. Her designs have been featured in institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Victoria & Albert Museum. Katrantzou created the tiles to function as collectable artworks as well as interior design pieces.
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Submit your project before midnight London time on 1 June to avoid late entry fees. Tibbits has designed and built large-scale installations and exhibited in galleries around the world, including the Centre Pompidou , Philadelphia Museum of Art , Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum among others.
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Full height glazing surrounding the open plan kitchen, dining and living spaces opens up to a private courtyard and allows the house to feel transparent and connected with the landscaped garden.
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Founding director of architecture studio JA Projects Ali, Victoria and Albert Museum curator Kellay, Sound Advice co-founder Henry and Crafts Council head of public programmes Upham will curate an exhibition that explores the architecture of the British diaspora through a pre-colonial lens.
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I had previously worked on exhibitions touching on sneaker history for the Victoria and Albert Museum and other smaller galleries, which is why the Design Museum approached me about this exhibition. Ed Reeve, Design Museum London. Ed Reeve, Design Museum London. Ed Reeve, Design Museum London.
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I had previously worked on exhibitions touching on sneaker history for the Victoria and Albert Museum and other smaller galleries, which is why the Design Museum approached me about this exhibition. Ed Reeve, Design Museum London. Ed Reeve, Design Museum London. Ed Reeve, Design Museum London.
Deezen
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London-based architect Shahed Saleem has created a colourful pavilion in the shape of a mosque , which has been erected at the V&A museum as part of this year's Ramadan Festival. Saleem, who is of Indian heritage, designed the pavilion for the Ramadan Tent Project 's annual festival, which celebrates the holy month of Ramadan.
Deezen
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British architect Sam Jacob has used ribbed glass to create a contemporary entrance for London's historic V&A museum and updated its bathrooms with a broken-ceramic cladding that feels "a little perverse". The contemporary lobby was designed as a response to the historic museum. It sits in front of a large arched window.
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Their work ranges from the interiors of Michelin-starred restaurants to aspirational objects that have earned their place in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, at the Cooper Hewitt SmithsoÂnian Design Museum in New York, at the Musée des Arts DécoÂratifs in Paris and the Design Museum in Copenhagen.
Deezen
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He has also held teaching positions at Columbia University , Yale University , the Harvard Graduate School of Design , the Bartlett School of Architecture in London and the University of Pennsylvania. In 1972, Pritzker Architecture Prize -winner Mayne co-founded the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles.
Dwell
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From London, an interesting answer came by way of the Victoria & Albert Museum, whose independent installation "Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Power in West Africa" uses video and archival materials to look at the complex cultural exchange between the U.K.
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Deezen
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There is less than one month left to submit your project before midnight London time on 1 June and avoid late entry fees. Recent projects by office Studio Zhu Pei include an art centre in the easter province of Shandong with sweeping concrete roofs , a performing arts centre in Dali and a museum informed by traditional brick kilns.
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Photo by Marton Perlaki Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at MoMA Having joined the Museum of Modern Art in 1994, Paola Antonelli is now the institution's senior curator and founding director of research and development.
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photo © James Newton 195 Piccadilly, the charity’s home since 1974, was built in 1883 as the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colour (JMW Turner’s bust on façade), when snubbed by neighbouring Royal Academy. The firm seeks the greatest value out of the complex realities that all projects face, turning constraints into practical opportunities.
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Models also have a vibrant life outside the architect’s office, including as souvenirs, architectural fragments displayed in museums, and toys for children and adults alike. She is Senior Curator of Designs at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London, and the V&A’s Lead Curator for the V&A + RIBA Architecture Partnership.
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An elegant table with leaves Case Dulwich Extension Table Since graduating from London’s Kingston Polytechnic in 1979, Matthew Hilton has built a following for his innovative furniture and lighting, with pieces held in the permanent collections of London’s Geffrye and Victoria & Albert Museums, among others.
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Image courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, Londonn Wednesday 31 May 2023 – Today, the V&A releases new details of the unique experience awaiting visitors at the V&A East Storehouse, as it completes construction and prepares to embark on the largest collection move in its 170-year history.
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London’s Victoria and Albert Museum is set to open an exhibition on the modernist architectural style that emerged in 1940s West Africa.
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LDA Design is responsible for the £1.5m landscape transformation to help realise the ecological potential as part of the wider Lee Valley Regional Park.
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