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Karl Langer: Modern Architect and Migrant in the Australian Tropics

By Tom Avermaete (Editor), Deborah van der Plaat (Editor), Janina Gosseye (Editor), John MacArthur (Editor)
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By Tom Avermaete (Editor), Deborah van der Plaat (Editor), Janina Gosseye (Editor), John MacArthur (Editor)
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Fleeing Europe in 1939 for the Australian state of Queensland, the architect Karl Langer (1903-1969) found himself positioned at the very edge of both European and Australian modernism.

Confronted by tropical heat and glare, the economics of affordable housing, fiercely proud 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.

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