Adolf Rading

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Adolf Peter Rading (born March 2, 1888 in Berlin , † April 4, 1957 in London ) was a German architect of the New Building , who was also active in the field of the League of Nations mandate for Palestine and Great Britain .

A. Rading: Mohrenapotheke in Breslau (right picture), now the editorial office of Gazeta Wyborcza
A. Rading: Lodge house of the Odd Fellows , now Kino Lwów in Wroclaw

Life

Adolf Rading was born in Berlin in March 1888. He attended high school in Berlin-Lichterfelde. After secondary school he did an apprenticeship as a bricklayer. After training as a businessman, he attended the municipal building trade school in Berlin from 1905 to 1908. After graduating in architecture in 1911, he worked in the office of August Endell and Albert Gessner in Berlin. From 1914 to 1918 he did military service. In 1919 he worked briefly for Peter Behrens . In the same year he followed August Endell, who had been director of the State Academy of Arts and Crafts in Wroclaw since 1918 , to the Silesian provincial capital. There he led the teaching of the construction and arts and crafts class together with Endell as his assistant , which he took over as a professor from 1923 and headed by emergency decree of April 1, 1932 until the academy was closed in the Great Depression . In 1922 Adolf Rading carried out the conversion of a row of houses in the Breslauer Oranienstrasse, which were initially planned for individual families, into multi-storey apartment buildings.

From 1926 Rading ran a joint office with Hans Scharoun in Berlin. Adolf Rading was a member of the Deutscher Werkbund and took part in its exhibitions in Stuttgart - Weißenhof and in Breslau; he was also a member of the architects' association Der Ring . Rading was a member of the Reich Research Society for Economic Efficiency in Building and Housing . The residential complex created between 1930 and 1933 in the Berlin district of Rummelsburg (Irenen-, Meta- and Friedastraße) with Oskar Schlemmer is probably his last building in Germany.

Apartment house, Flinsberger Platz 3, Berlin-Schmargendorf (1931, with Hans Scharoun )
Berlin: Friedastraße 9–15, Radings and Schlemmers residential complex

Without a permanent job anyway, Rading and his Jewish second wife Else Leschnitzer left Germany after the Nazis came to power in 1933. They emigrated to France. Determined to turn away from architecture, Rading initially ran a farm, but then changed his mind, as Julius Posener reported after Rading visited him in Jerusalem. Posener judged: "I have not often met an architect who has been such a very creative artist."

Haifa: Derech ha-Jam 91, Max Mordechai Nimtza-Bi house, 1939

In 1935 the Rading couple immigrated to Palestine . First he worked on competition entries with his colleague Kurt Reinsch (1892–1952) who had also emigrated . In 1936 they both received first prize for their urban planning design for Haifa's center near the port. The plan was not implemented because of the Arab uprising (1936–1939) and then during World War II. In 1939 Rading and Reinsch built an apartment building in Haifa for Else Leschnitzer's (married Rading) brother-in-law Walter Roth.

Haifa: Kikkar Masaryk, June 2014

Rading was a city architect in Haifa from 1943 and described his work in a letter at the end of January 1946 as follows: “Well, for almost four years I have been - first an architect consultant - now architectural adviser for the municipality in Haifa, which means practically the city ​​planning director , pretty much exactly that Work and sphere of activity of such in Germany. I plan the entire building construction of the city administration and carry it out, also deal with all urban planning problems, the urban green spaces and the planning applications ”. Due to his work in the city administration, parts of the award-winning project were realized. This is how the Kikkar Fichte, Kikkar Masaryk, Kikkar Moriah and Kikkar haRaqafot squares were created.

As Rading chef d'oeuvre, the chemistry laboratory is Frutarom to see him in 1944 in the industrial district near the Kischonmündung built. Even after Israel was founded in May 1948, he stayed with the Haifa city council, where he was very much appreciated. In general, the employees called each other by their first name, but in order not to use his, Rading's colleagues called him ha-professor ( Hebrew הפרופסור). Yehoshua Pruschansky, as an engineer assigned to the municipal construction department, characterized Rading in his obituary as a personality who combined the qualities of an artist, a scholar from the Hillels the Elder's apprenticeship and a free thinker, which is why he made Rading's progress - which he is not alone in Rading saw justified - very much regretted.

In 1950 he settled in Great Britain. There Rading, known to British colleagues through his work in Haifa, quickly found acceptance at the Royal Institute of British Architects , the Royal Town Planning Institute and the Institute of Registered Architects. Four buildings of private houses are known from his British times.

Adolf Rading died in London at the age of 69. From December 1920 to 1928 he was married to the artist Anna Silber (1898–1981), who was ten years his junior and a student of August Endell. In 1928 he married Else Leschnitzer, divorced Jaffé (1898–1987).

Works

Rabe House in Zwenkau (1929–1931)
  • 1921: The architect's home on Stifterstrasse in Breslau
  • 1922: Design for a multi-storey car park in Breslau
  • 1925: Competition design for the redesign of the Elisabethkirchplatz in Breslau
  • 1922–1924: Row house on Oranienstrasse in Breslau
  • 1925–1927: Lodge house of the Odd Fellows in Breslau
  • 1927: Single-family house in the Weißenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart (demolished in 1956)
  • 1925–1928: two renovations of the Mohrenapotheke on Blücherplatz in Breslau (now the editorial office of Gazeta Wyborcza ), with Hans Leistikow
  • 1927: Kriebelhaus in the Leerbeuthel housing estate (Lipińskiego Street 1) in Wroclaw
  • 1927: Railway station in Schönberg in Upper Lusatia (now Poland). Well-preserved and only slightly changed station building. It was the first unrepresentative through station of a small station designed according to its technical purpose.
  • 1928: Haeffner house in Berlin- Pichelsdorf
  • 1929: Apartment building in the WuWa exhibition in Breslau, originally planned as a high-rise building (after the Second World War, the Panzerschiff student dormitory , but vacant and for sale since 2012),
  • 1929: Ernst Rading house in Berlin-Zehlendorf , Sophie-Charlotte-Strasse
  • 1929–1930: House Rabe in Zwenkau with Oskar Schlemmer
  • 1931: Apartment house, Flinsberger Platz 3, Kudowastraße 15, Berlin-Schmargendorf (together with Hans Scharoun )
  • 1930–1933: Housing development in Berlin-Rummelsburg
  • 1936–1950: Urban planning for Haifa
  • 1937: Herzberg House in Haifa
  • 1939: Maurice Gerzon's house in Haifa
  • 1941: House of Jehudah Araten in Haifa
  • 1944: Frutarom perfume factory for Jehudah Araten and Maurice Gerzon in Haifa
  • 1945: David Kopelovitz's house in Haifa

Fonts

  • Stadt, Form, Architekt , in: Die Form, vol. 1, 1925/26, pp. 6–10 ( digitized version ).
  • Living habits . In: Die Form, Vol. 2, 1927, pp. 47–49 ( digitized version ).
  • Arts and crafts schools . In: Die Form, Vol. 2, 1927, pp. 175-180 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Regina Göckede: Adolf Rading (1888-1957): Exodus des Neues Bauen and transgressions of exile , Gebr. Mann, Berlin, 2005, ISBN 3786124086 , p. 106.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Myra Warhaftig , you laid the foundation stone. Life and work of German-speaking Jewish architects in Palestine 1918–1948 , Tübingen / Berlin: Wasmuth, 1996, ISBN 3-8030-0171-4 , p. 237.
  3. ↑ a b c d Myra Warhaftig, you laid the foundation stone. Life and work of German-speaking Jewish architects in Palestine 1918–1948 Tübingen / Berlin: Wasmuth, 1996, ISBN 3-8030-0171-4 , p. 238.
  4. ↑ Myra Warhaftig, you laid the foundation stone. Life and work of German-speaking Jewish architects in Palestine 1918–1948 Tübingen / Berlin: Wasmuth, 1996, ISBN 3-8030-0171-4 , p. 236.
  5. ↑ Julius Posener, Almost as old as the century , Berlin: Siedler, 1990, ISBN 3-88680-381-3 , p. 243.
  6. ↑ Buildings, drafts and explanations: Adolf Rading , Peter Pfankuch (eds., Ausw. And Zsstllg.), Berlin: Mann, 1970, (= series of publications of the Academy of the Arts / Berlin; Vol. 3), p. 9.
  7. ↑ a b c Jehoschua Pruschansky, Professor Rading and his work in Haifa , Haifa: unpublished manuscript, April 1958; cf. Gideon Kaminka, Difficult Israel. Memories 1939–1979 , Zurich: Judaica, 1980, pp. 77–78.
  8. ↑ Buildings, drafts and explanations: Adolf Rading , Peter Pfankuch (ed., Ausw. And Zsstllg.), Berlin: Mann, 1970, (= series of publications of the Academy of the Arts / Berlin; Vol. 3), p. 134.
  9. ↑ Architecture of the Twenties in Germany - A Legacy in Danger , Langewiesche Verlag, Königstein 2009, Fig. 289.
  10. ^ Adolf Rading: Bahnhof Schönberg OL In: Die Form, Vol. 3, 1928, pp. 151-154 ( digitized version ).
  11. ^ Hans Eckstein: New residential buildings . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1932, p. 41 .
  12. ^ Werner Durth: Rading meets Schlemmer: Bau Haus Kunst; the house of Dr. Rabe in Zwenkau 1928-1931 . Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-86335-667-5 , p. 116 .
  13. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List

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personal data
SURNAME Rading, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rading, Adolf Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 4th 1957
Place of death London