{"product_id":"9781350068100","title":"Karl Langer Modern Architect and Migrant in the Australian Tropics","description":"\u003ch3\u003eBloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eKarl Langer\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eModern Architect and Migrant in the Australian Tropics\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eTom Avermaete | Deborah van der Plaat | Janina Gosseye | John Macarthur\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eArchitecture \/ History \/ Modern\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite 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 and social conditions of tropical Australia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book will tell Langer's story through a series of edited essays focused on key themes and projects.  Published as part of the \u003ci\u003eBloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture \u003c\/i\u003eseries, which brings to light the work of significant yet overlooked modernist architects, it is both an examination of an architect's work and international legacy, and also a case study in the trans-global dissemination of design ideas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStudying the architect's built and proposed work, both regional and metropolitan, the scale and reach of Langer's practice will be considered for the first time, showing how, given his continued influence on the contemporary culture of tropical design, Langer has been unjustly ignored by the historiography of both Australian and Modernist architecture to date.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeborah van der Plaat\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer at the School of Architecture at The University of Queensland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Macarthur\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Architecture and Director of Research in the School of Architecture, the University of Queensland, Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e07 April 2022\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Visual Arts\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350068100\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e328\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e28.64\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51332572643468,"sku":"9781350068100","price":108.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_1121a055-649d-4e0a-9a72-b9e0c9405440.jpg?v=1783604116","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781350068100","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}