The Tropical House (La Maison Tropicale), Tate Modern, South Bank, London.
Image by Jim Linwood
The prototype house, designed by the French architect Jean Prouvé (1901–84), for 1950s colonial West Africa, is erected outside Tate Modern.
Visitors are able to walk around this ‘flat pack’ house which was originally erected in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, in 1951. In 2000 the house was found in Brazzaville, in a dilapidated state and riddled with bullet holes. The house was dismantled, returned to France and restored.
Ker-hse3
Image by third.eye65
A modern yet traditional house design in Kerala. Many of the new homes being built in Kerala are in architectural styles unsuited to the tropical climate. This one was an exception, and it was cool and airy inside, compared to the sultry, stale air in some of the "modern" homes I visited.
Ker-hse4
Image by third.eye65
Note the extensive use of stone and brick for the walls and floor, the tiled roof, and the tall windows that allow for excellent ventilation in this tropical climate, yet retains that measure of privacy that is so necessary in crowded India.
A Corner with Corner Windows IMG_3242
Image by catchesthelight
Just a corner of light-catching windows within the art deco district of South Beach Miami Beach that looked more mid-century modern tropical to me --
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