- Adolf Rading
Adolf Peter Rading (February 2, 1888,
Berlin - April 4, 1957,London ) was a Germanarchitect of theNeues Bauen period, also active inPalestine andGreat Britain .After finishing architecture school in Berlin, Rading briefly worked in the office of
Peter Behrens in 1919. That same year he moved toBreslau , becoming a professor at the National Academcy for Arts and Crafts. In 1926 Rading established a partnership withHans Scharoun , became a member of The Ring (the architectural collective), and in 1927 contributed a single-family house to theWeissenhof 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. From 1943 through 1950 Rading served as the city architect of
Haifa ; in 1950 he established himself inGreat Britain .
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