Karl Langer: Modern Architect and Migrant in the Australian Tropics

Title: Karl Langer: Modern Architect and Migrant in the Australian Tropics
Editors: Dr Deborah van der Plaat and Professor John Macarthur
Publisher: Bloomsbury (2021)

In Karl Langer: Modern Architect and Migrant in the Australian Tropics, the scale and reach of Karl Langer’s practice is considered for the first time. The book studies Langer’s built and proposed work, both regional and metropolitan, and shows how, given his continued influence on the contemporary culture of tropical design, the architect has been unjustly ignored by the historiography of both Australian and modernist architecture to date.

Langer’s story is told through a series of edited essays focused on key themes and projects. Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, it is both an examination of the architect's work and international legacy, and a case study in the trans-global dissemination of design ideas.