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Rading, Adolf
(b Berlin, 2 March 1888; d London, 4 April 1957). German architect, teacher, urban planner and writer. He was trained as a bricklayer and then studied architecture at the Technische Hochschule, Berlin. He began his career working in August Endell’s studio, where he made a particular contribution to the structures for the trotting racecourse in Mariendorf, Berlin. In 1918 Endell succeeded Hans Poelzig as Director of the Akademie für Kunste und Kunstgewerbe in Breslau, Silesia (now Wroclaw, Poland), and in 1919 he invited Rading to teach there. Rading later became Professor of Architecture and after Endell’s death in 1925 he was instrumental in the appointment of his friend Hans Scharoun as a second professor at the Akademie.
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