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Karl Langer: Modern Architect and Migrant in the Australian Tropics
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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 (19031969) 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.
Published as part of t...
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.
Published as part of t...