As Hardly Found - Art and Tropical Architecture

As Hardly Found: Art and Tropical Architecture foregrounds artists and artworks long overlooked in histories of tropical architecture. Through essays by historians, artists, and archivists, the book revisits the Department of Tropical Architecture at the Architectural Association and its global collaborators, emerging alongside mid-20th-century anticolonial movements. Using creative and critical methods, contributors explore archival gaps and highlight practices across Nigeria, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Singapore, Costa Rica, Cuba, and the UK. Mapping exchanges between art and architecture, the volume recentres diverse environmental knowledge, social values, and material cultures shaped by artists working within and beyond the legacies of empire.