Tourists flock to Miami Beach to stroll the streets lined with the city-defining art deco design. But the wave of permanent transplants to the city is staying for the tropical modernism that has for ...

Brazilian modernist architect Lina Bo Bardi is now the subject of a new show, “Tropical Modernism: Lina Bo Bardi” at Santa Monica’s Christopher Grimes Gallery. If you happen to be in Brazil for the ...

Undeniably, art deco is the typical design style that comes to mind when people discuss Miami’s architecture. In fact, Miami Beach deco has its own subcategory of the Roaring Twenties style, made ...

Architecture has long been intertwined with the historical narratives of colonialism, where European powers imposed their styles and ideologies upon colonised regions, often disregarding local ...

There’s no question that climate change is intensifying. If we’re not experiencing a record-breaking deep freeze in the winter, we’re dealing with scorching heat waves. One of the most serious ...

Britain exported the architectural style to West Africa and India, but local practitioners adapted it for a different climate and a new kind of politics. By Emily LaBarge The critic Emily LaBarge saw ...

Tropical Modernism in Ghana with our correspondent in Accra, Christopher Lord, Charles Correa gives us a tour of his life’s work at London’s RIBA and we sit down with Martha Thorne, executive director ...

Tropical Modernism is an architectural style of wide open spaces connected to sprawling outdoors that is unique to the Indian Ocean island of Sri Lanka. At its core is a focus on local resources and ...

A Tropical Modern home designed by notable contemporary architect Ralph Choeff has hit the market for $16.5 million on Bay Harbor Islands, an exclusive area off the coast of Miami. “Tropical Modern ...

LONDON — In the 1940s, British architect Maxwell Fry was convinced he and his wife and colleague, Jane Drew, would play an important role in the Empire’s last days. “I think the English have a grand ...

"My childhood in Hong Kong was shaped by a particular style of building," said Calvin Po in The Spectator: market halls with brise-soleils – slatted screens – shielding us from the midday glare; ...

We pay a visit to London’s Victoria and Albert museum, where a new exhibition is dedicated to the architectural style. We also reflect on the work of Sri Lankan practitioner Geoffrey Bawa. Lucrezia ...