Tropical Architecture, although now a highly contested and debated term, is the name given to European modern architecture that has been modified to suit the climatic and sometimes cultural context of hot countries. These hot countries were labelled the tropics and were often European colonies, or countries that had recently won their independence. Fry & Drew s book, written on the threshold of the end of the British Empire, was one of the first publications to offer practical advice to architects working in the tropics, based on the empirical studies they conducted whilst based in British...