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Karl Langer: Modern Architect and Migrant in the Australian Tropics
Hardcover
$120.00
By Tom Avermaete (Editor), Deborah van der Plaat (Editor), Janina Gosseye (Editor), John MacArthur (Editor)
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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 ...