Christopher Turner

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

[Christopher Turner @TurnerOnDesign]

Farewell, Frank Gehry (1929-2025), Artist-Architect. My tribute
@Apollo_magazine https://t.co/tcSdY83zBg

[Christopher Turner @TurnerOnDesign]

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 https://t.co/DMyoioQJaC

[Christopher Turner @TurnerOnDesign]

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:
https://t.co/XS2n6Q9fev

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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 https://t.co/f4mYv8YUzq

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My @Literaryreview of Owen Hatherley's briliant book
The Alienation Effect: How Central European Emigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century https://t.co/7SYOuZGpLO

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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

[The Tribune @thetribunechd]

#Chandigarh exemplified tropical modernism, says @turnerondesign of @V_and_A as Deepika Gandhi interviews him for The Tribune @thetribunechd #SpectrumTheTribune #indepth #Corbusier

https://t.co/1SKeqeT5Gg

[The Tribune @thetribunechd]

#Chandigarh exemplified tropical modernism, says @turnerondesign of @V_and_A as Deepika Gandhi interviews him for The Tribune @thetribunechd #SpectrumTheTribune #indepth #Corbusier

https://t.co/1SKeqeT5Gg

[Christopher Turner @TurnerOnDesign]

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

[Shruti Kapila @shrutikapila]

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

[Christopher Turner @TurnerOnDesign]

@TypeMafia @V_and_A @GrahamFound I can confirm it's being reprinted so not to worry

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The book has arrived! Beautifully designed by studio Boris Meister, published by @V_and_A and made possible by @GrahamFound

https://t.co/rZ8qfwkJFJ

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@TypeMafia @V_and_A @GrahamFound We're costing up a reprint and I hope there will be a 2nd edition

[Christopher Turner @TurnerOnDesign]

"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."

[Christopher Turner @TurnerOnDesign]

Goodbye, blue sky: Tropical Modernism @WofInteriors
https://t.co/slSbAEqZAo

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Final weekend: Last chance to see Tropical Modernism @V_and_A
https://t.co/t2sJegrsqy

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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 https://t.co/fQfijQfHl9