Roland Rainer
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Roland Rainer (1 May 1910 – 10 April 2004) was an Austrian architect.
Born in
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
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
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 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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