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)
Premium Members save an extra 10% and all Members collect stamps to save with Rewards. 10 stamps = $5.Learn More
Select a store to view item availability.
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 ...


