As Hardly Found - Art and Tropical Architecture

As Hardly Found: Art and Tropical Architecture centres on artists and artworks that have so far been overlooked by histories of 'tropical architecture'. In this collection of essays, historians, artists and archivists address works of art connected to epicentres of teaching and practice within the movement - focusing on the Department of Tropical Architecture at the Architectural Association and its collaborators - which emerged in the mid-20th century alongside anticolonial struggles that dismantled the British Empire. Here, authors use creative, critical and speculative methods to inhabit the gaps in archives of tropical architecture, highlighting artworks in Nigeria, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Singapore, Costa Rica, Cuba and the UK. Their contributions trace connections within a network of relations between art and architecture; one which recentres the rich and diverse forms of environmental knowledge, social values and material cultures contributed by artists working in these contexts. With essays by Bea Gassmann de Sousa; kari'kacha seid'ou; Juliana Yat Shun Kei; Mark Crinson; Kehinde 'Kennii' Ekundayo; Ben Highmore; Hannah Le Roux and Pedro Guedes; Pepe Menendez; Vandana Baweja; Joleen Loh; Adedoyin Teriba; Albert Brenchat-Aguilar, Artemis Morgan, Cagla Kazanli, Mina Gursel Tabanlioglu and Yiru Wang; Rachel Lee; Lena Naumann; Antoni Malinowski; Shirley Surya; Courage Dzidula Kpodo; Ikem Stanley Okoye; Zhijian Sun and Wei Weiteng; Natalia Solano- Meza; Iain Jackson with Clare Tunstall and Helen Unsworth; Bernard Akoi-Jackson; Ato Jackson, Mariana Castillo Deball, Debbie Meniru and Ella Adu; Priya Basil.