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Karl Langer - Modern Architect and Migrant in the Australian Tropics (Hardcover)
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Karl Langer - Modern Architect and Migrant in the Australian Tropics (Hardcover)
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture
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Despite a European training and an early career working with Peter
Behrens, a migration from Vienna to the Australian state of
Queensland positioned the architect Karl Langer (1903-1969) at the
very edge of both European and Australian modernism. Confronted by
tropical heat and glare, the economics of affordable housing,
fiercely proud and regional architectural practices, and a
suspicion of the foreign, Langer moulded the European language of
international modernism to the unique climatic and social
conditions of tropical Australia. This book will tell Langer’s
story through a series of edited essays focused on key themes and
projects. Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern
Architecture series, which brings to light the work of significant
yet overlooked modernist architects, it is both an examination of
an architect’s work and international legacy, and also a case
study in the trans-global dissemination of design ideas. Studying
the architect’s built and proposed work, both regional and
metropolitan, the scale and reach of Langer’s practice will be
considered for the first time, showing how, given his continued
influence on the contemporary culture of tropical design, Langer
has been unjustly ignored by the historiography of both Australian
and Modernist architecture to date.
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