Alfred Preis displaced : the tropical modernism of the Austrian emigrant and architect of the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor The first publication to catalog the complete works of architect and arts advocate Alfred Preis a Viennese modernist who fled Nazi occupied Austria and transformed regional Hawaiian architecture with his best known project being the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor.0Architect planner and arts advocate Alfred Preis (1911 1994) dedicated his many creative talents to his beloved adopted home Hawaii. Born to a Jewish family raised and educated in Vienna Preis became an exile after escaping from Nazi occupied Austria in 1939 and briefly being interned as an enemy alien when the United States entered World War II. Preis emerged as one of Hawaiis leading modern architects in the 1950s and 1960s. His celebrated architectural career spanned twenty three years. In this time he designed almost one hundred and eighty completed projects ranging from residences schools commercial buildings and public parks. His new regionalist vision for architecture and planning were specific to the Hawaiian context its people its tropical climate and its stunning landscape. Preiss crowning achievement was his design for the famed USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor in 1962. 0This is the first publication to examine Alfred Preiss body of work in architecture which spans from 1939 to 1963 including not only several acclaimed public projects but also illustrating the transition from a European modern language into a regional modernism unifying both cultures in distinct and pioneering ways. 0In later years through his legislative work Alfred Preis became a visionary advocate and leader for the public arts creating the first 1% law in the United States which stipulated that 1% of all public building construction be used for the purchase of public art