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Kuukuwa Manful, Postdoctoral Researcher in Politics of Architecture, SOAS, University of London

Venice architecture biennale: how pioneering Ghanaian architects reckoned with tropical modernism

Owusu Addo Residence by John Owusu Addo. Kuukuwa Manful, CC BY-NC-ND

As curator of the 2023 Venice architecture biennale, the Ghanaian-Scottish architect, Lesley Lokko, has chosen to highlight the African continent as “the laboratory of the future”.

But as well as looking at the future of architecture on the continent, visitors will also be able to explore its history, through an exhibition at the Arsenale, entitled Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Power in West Africa.

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