Karl Langer

<p>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. <p/>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. <p/>Published as part of the <i>Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture </i>series which brings to light the work of significant yet overlooked modernist architects this book is both an examination of Langer's work and international legacy and also a case study in tropical modernism and the trans-global dissemination of design ideas - revealing how Langer sought to reconcile his training in international modernism with a fascination for the formal and visual languages of a regional culture context and climate.</p>