Ruth Golan

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Ruth Golan (* 1944 in Jerusalem ; † May 25, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German architect and urban planner .

Study and work

Memorial Lindenufer Spandau
View into the lapidarium at the Jewish cemetery
Main nave of the Rykestrasse Synagogue in Berlin

Ruth Golan served in the military in Israel. In 1965 she moved to Germany. She studied at the Technical University of Berlin from 1966 to 1971 Architecture and 1984-1986 landscape planning . In 1972 she founded her own architecture office with her husband Kay Zareh in Berlin, which she ran until the end of her life. Ruth Golan was primarily responsible for spatial planning and aesthetics in the office. Among other things, she managed the renovation of the synagogue on Rykestrasse in the Berlin district of Pankow, Germany's largest synagogue with 1,200 seats. In 1988 the office won the competition for the erection of the Spandau memorial for the victims of the Shoah and for the destroyed synagogue. Furthermore, the office was commissioned to expand the memorial on behalf of the victims, but Ruth Golan died before the implementation.

Kibbutz architecture

In 1984 Ruth Golan presented a brochure at the International Building Exhibition in which she advocated a kibbutz-like coexistence. The idea is similar to the terms generation house , residential association and garden city already known in the German-speaking world . Communal living should strengthen the feeling of community. A large kitchen should permanently supply all residents, and childcare should be organized jointly by all and for all residents. A library should make knowledge easier for all members. The buildings and conversions should be based on the residents' living requirements, not the planner's imagination. All roommates should have a lifelong right to stay. Your ideas didn't meet with much response.

Attitude to religion

Ruth Golan was an atheist . Nevertheless, she defended the right to believe and therefore gladly built the memorial for the destroyed synagogue in Spandau.

Works

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death of Ruth Golan-Zareh . In: MeinSpandau .
  2. ↑ Ruth Golan . In: Obituaries: Ruth Golan (born 1944) .
  3. ↑ Death of Ruth Golan-Zareh . In: MeinSpandau .
  4. ↑ Death of Ruth Golan-Zareh . In: MeinSpandau .
  5. ↑ Ruth Golan . In: Obituaries: Ruth Golan (born 1944) .
  6. ↑ Ruth Golan . In: Obituaries: Ruth Golan (born 1944) .
  7. ^ Obituary by Ruth Golan-Zareh . In: Jüdische Allgemeine .
personal data
SURNAME Golan, Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and urban planner
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerusalem
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 2012
Place of death Berlin