Karl Langer
Plaat, Deborah van der / MacArthur, John![Karl Langer](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/392/39217264/CHSBZCOP0339217264.jpg)
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.
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 cond...