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.

Otto Königsberger, A. F. Hare, Structural and Mechanical Development Engineers Limited, prototype of the pre-fabricated Housing Units, New Delhi, India, 1950
Otto Königsberger, A. F. Hare, Structural and Mechanical Development Engineers Limited, prototype of the pre-fabricated Housing Units, New Delhi, India, 1950 © Otto Königsberger Archive, aa Archives, London.