Roland Rainer
Austrian architect
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Roland Rainer (1 May 1910 – 10 April 2004) was an Austrian architect .
Born in Klagenfurt , Roland Rainer decided to become an architect when he was 18, so he studied at the Vienna University of Technology . His thesis was about the Karlsplatz in Vienna . Then, he left Austria visiting the Netherlands and the German Academy for Urban Design in Berlin . He became a Member of the ruling Nazi Party and endorsed their policies in his theoretical works. After World War II , he returned to Austria and continued writing, including his most famous work Urban design prose .
He was then called to several universities : the Technical University of Berlin , the Technical University at Brunswick , Technion - Israel Institute of Technology , and the Technical University of Munich . In 1953, Rainer became professor for housing , urban design , and land use planning at the Leibniz University Hannover . In 1954, he became professor for structural engineering at the Graz University of Technology , which forced him to commute between Graz and Hannover . From 1954, Rainer led the Master School for Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna .
From 1956 to 1962, one of his most significant works, the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna , was built. On July 1, 1958, Rainer was commissioned with the development of the zoning plan by the town council of Vienna . From 1987, Rainer was chairman of the curia for art of the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art . He was also a constant critic of environmental destruction and bad constructions. In 1967 he took part in the international competition of urbanist concept for Bratislava - Petrzalka district in Slovakia . [1]
In 2006 the Roland-Rainer-Platz in front of the Wiener Stadthalle was named after him.
Honours and awards
- 1954: City of Vienna Prize for Architecture
- 1962: Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art
- 1962: Grand Austrian State Prize for Architecture
- 1969: Austrian Bauherrenpreis for "garden village" development at Puchenau , in Linz
- 1973: Honorary Member ("Honorary Fellow") of the American Institute of Architects
- 1979: Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
- 1985: Honorary Ring of the City of Vienna
- 2000: Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Star for Services to the Republic of Austria [2]
- 2006: Austrian Bauherrenpreis for the Roland-Rainer-Siedlung garden city development in St. Pölten (posthumously)
References
- ↑ Tkacikova, Lucia (2012-06-15). "Bratislava je laboratoriom panelakov" . SME . Retrieved 15 June 2012 .
- ↑ "Reply to a parliamentary question" (PDF) (in German). p. 1355 . Retrieved 22 November 2012 .
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