Adolf Peter Rading (2 February 1888, in Berlin – 4 April 1957, in London) was a German architect of the Neues Bauen period, also active in Palestine and Great Britain.

Adolf Rading
Adolf Rading's Odd Fellows Lodge in Wrocław, Poland
Born(1888-02-02)February 2, 1888
DiedApril 4, 1957(1957-04-04) (aged 69)
London, England
Occupationarchitect of the Neues Bauen period

Career edit

 
Four-storey rental house, WUWA (interior)

After finishing architecture school in Berlin, Rading briefly worked in the office of Peter Behrens in 1919. That same year he moved to Breslau, becoming a professor at the National Academy for Arts and Crafts. In 1926 Rading established a partnership with Hans Scharoun, became a member of The Ring (the architectural collective),[1] and in 1927 contributed a single-family house to the Weissenhof Estate exhibition.

After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Rading, whose wife came from a Jewish family, emigrated to France and then to Palestine, in today's Israel.[2] From 1943 through 1950 Rading served as the city architect of Haifa; in 1950 he established himself in Great Britain.

References edit

  1. ^ Franz Schulze (15 October 1995). Mies Van Der Rohe: A Critical Biography. University of Chicago Press. pp. 131–. ISBN 978-0-226-74060-7.
  2. ^ Mark M. Jarzombek; Vikramaditya Prakash (4 October 2011). A Global History of Architecture. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 1887–. ISBN 978-0-470-90248-6.