Abstract
Recent research has drawn fresh attention to a ‘community’ of central European emigres to New Zealand, escaping the drastic and dangerous political and social change affected by the rise of Nazism and popular anti-Semitism during the 1930s in Germany, Austria, and other territories eventually claimed by Hitler. Historians of New Zealand’s modern movement identify a number of figures among this influx—including the Viennese Ernst Plischke and Friedrich Neumann/Frederick Newman, the German Odo Strewe and the Czech Heinrich Kulka—whose experience as practitioners in Europe informed the subsequent development of New Zealand’s modern architecture from 1939 onwards. However, as Panayotis Tounikiotis reminds us, the idea of a singular architectural response to modernity has long since lost currency. Likewise, the notion of a uniform ‘lesson’ drawn by New Zealand from these, and other European architect emigres from this and other moments is something that deserves further critical attention.
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