Otto Königsberger and Global Architectural Histories

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https://doi.org/10.52200/63.A.55NZT8G6

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Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Modern housing

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Otto Königsberger was a German émigré architect who worked as the state architect in princely Mysore in British India in the 1940s. Upon emigration to London in 1951, he subsequently became an educator of Tropical Architecture (1954-1971) at the AA School of Architecture. This paper examines how Otto Königsberger’s career can illuminate “global” as a paradigm in Modernist historiography.

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Baweja, V. (2021). Otto Königsberger and Global Architectural Histories. Docomomo Journal, (63), 26–31. https://doi.org/10.52200/63.A.55NZT8G6

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2021-08-31

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No. 63 (2020): Tropical Architecture in the Modern Diaspora

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Vandana Baweja, University of Florida

Associate professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. Her areas of research are – Tropical Architecture and Sustainable Architecture. She is a recipient of grants from the Florida Humanities Council and the GAHTC.

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