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Christopher Turner @TurnerOnDesign

Keeper of Art, Architecture, Photography & Design @V_and_A and Curator of Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence

Joined March 2017
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Farewell, Frank Gehry (1929-2025), Artist-Architect. My tribute @Apollo_magazine apollo-magazine.com/frank-ge…

Frank Gehry’s frontier spirit

Heavily influenced by his artistic contemporaries, the architect created sculptural forms that pushed the limits of design – and revolutionised the idea of the modern museum, writes Christopher Turner

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Sad to hear about the death of Amanda Fielding who, many years ago, in her moated Oxfordshire manor, as a parrot nibbled her ear, showed me the film of her trepanning herself @cabinetmagazine cabinetmagazine.org/issues/2…

Like a Hole in the Head | Christopher Turner

The trepanation-state

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Was a pleasure to judge the 5th edition of @londonbiennale @SomersetHouse on until 29 June. Congratulations to the winning entries Malta, Poland and Oman
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Do Ho Suh's film about Robin Hood Gardens, commissioned by @V_and_A for the Venice Architecture Biennale and about to go on view at V&A East Storehouse, was looking good and attracting the crowds at the Tate Modern opening of Suh's solo show last night
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Great that Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence has been shortlisted for the Creative Review Awards 2025 in the Experience section: creativereview.co.uk/annual-…

Annual Awards 2025 Experience Shortlist

For the first time, we are releasing shortlists for our Annual Awards. Here you can see all the work in the final jury discussion for the Experience section

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My piece for @Apollo_magazine on the Liria Palace, bombed during the Spanish Civil War, and the eccentric duchess who rescued her confiscated art collection from the Prado and restored it apollo-magazine.com/liria-pa…

The duchess who scandalised Spain

The Liria Palace in Madrid is paying tribute to its late, great owner in the form of installations by Joana Vasconcelos

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My @Literaryreview of Owen Hatherley's briliant book The Alienation Effect: How Central European Emigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century literaryreview.co.uk/constru…

Christopher Turner - Constructivism & Crumpets

Christopher Turner: Constructivism & Crumpets - The Alienation Effect: How Central European Emigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century by Owen Hatherley

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'All rêved up.' Great headline from the fantastic team @Apollo_magazine to my review of Surrealism @CentrePompidou
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A call for a new museum in Chandigarh to celebrate the Indian architects who built the modernist city & should be better known & celebrated for their great contribution to post-independence India @NoorDasmesh @shrutikapila @Glob_Humanities @foundationCHD @ChandigarhAdmn @V_and_A
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13 Oct 2024
#Chandigarh exemplified tropical modernism, says @turnerondesign of @V_and_A as Deepika Gandhi interviews him for The Tribune @thetribunechd #SpectrumTheTribune #indepth #Corbusier tribuneindia.com/news/in-dep…
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13 Oct 2024
#Chandigarh exemplified tropical modernism, says @turnerondesign of @V_and_A as Deepika Gandhi interviews him for The Tribune @thetribunechd #SpectrumTheTribune #indepth #Corbusier tribuneindia.com/news/in-dep…

Chandigarh exemplified tropical modernism, served as inspiration - The Tribune

Dr Christopher Turner is the Keeper of Art, Architecture, Photography and Design at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, responsible for collections of over 20 lakh objects.

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An honour to speak at Chandigarh under Le Corbusier's Open Hand about the Indian torchbearers of modernism who helped found the city, and how to celebrate them better. Many thanks to @NoorDasmesh @shrutikapila @Glob_Humanities @foundationCHD @ChandigarhAdmn @V_and_A
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Superb day of talks / panels on the Indian architects who made #Chandigarh. Time to put Corbusier in place! Academics, policy leaders with architects & curators made this truly effective! Huge thanks to @TurnerOnDesign @NoorDasmesh @ManishTewari supported by @Glob_Humanities @foundationCHD @ChandigarhAdmn @V_and_A
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Goodbye, blue sky: Tropical Modernism @WofInteriors worldofinteriors.com/story/t…

Goodbye, blue sky: a last look at the V&A’s Tropical Modernism show

Homing in on the history of Ghanaian independence, Shawn Adams gives his highlights of the London gallery’s exhibition, which closes on Sunday

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"Exciting and clearly researched in great depth, the exhibition is a huge contribution to the project of filling gaps in the design history of the continent – and opens the door for more stories to be told as more and more institutions seek to address Britain’s imperial past."
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Final weekend: Last chance to see Tropical Modernism @V_and_A vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/tropic…

Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence - Exhibition at V&A South Kensington · V&A

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Come to St Anne's Limehouse, currently on the heritage at risk register, and see an exhibition on Hawksmoor's 6 London churches and the campaigns to save them (St. Anne's as featured in 1960s Vogue) @OpenCity_UK
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Nice review of Tropical Modernism (closes on the 22nd) in @TheTLS the-tls.co.uk/culture/archit…

Building anew

Tropical Modernism at the V&A is a small and elegantly installed exhibition, expanded from a show at last year’s Venice architecture biennale. It recounts what might almost be a parable of decoloni...

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Tropical Modernism: The Chandigarh Experiment and Post-Colonial India (Part of Global Design Forum @V_and_A on Sept 20). Hear Vikramaditya Prakash in conversation with Christopher Turner, curator of Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence. vam.ac.uk/event/wBrBZkBdeL/t…

Tropical Modernism: The Chandigarh Experiment and Post-Colonial India (Part of Global Design Forum)...

Hear Vikramaditya Prakash in conversation with Christopher Turner, curator of Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence.

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Barricade & Beacon @V_and_A for @L_D_F, a fabulous installation about protest architecture organised by Nick Newman @StudioBark
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