!!!Rainer, Roland

Rainer, Roland, b. Klagenfurt (Carinthia), May 1, 1910, architect 
and town planner. Studied at the University of Technology in Vienna, 
from 1932 self-employed, 1953/54 Professor at the University of 
Technology in Hannover, 1955 in Graz, 1956-1980 head of the master 
course for architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, 
1958-1963 town planner in Vienna. In numerous publications he 
continuously developed a doctrine covering every aspect of 
architecture, from the single house to urban planning. For private 
homes R. advocated the concept of living close to nature in compact 
flat blocks and took up ideas from the antique (atrium house) and from 
the Orient (garden city Puchenau bei Linz, 1966-1982); for large 
public buildings R. used an expressive-constructive language as a 
means of expressing democratic representation (Stadthalle Vienna, 
1955-1958; Stadthalle Ludwigshafen, 1962-1965). Awarded the Grand 
Austrian State Prize 1962, Honorary Medal for Science and Art in 1979.

!Further works
Estate of prefabricated houses Vienna´s 13th 
district, Veitingergasse, 1954 (with C. Auboeck); Boehler-Haus, 
Vienna, 1956-1958; housing estate Maurerberg, Vienna, 1958-1963; 
multi-purpose hall Bremen (with Saeume and Hafemann), 1961-1964; 
grammar school Kagran, Vienna, 1969-1973; headquarters of the Austrian 
broadcasting corporation in Vienna (ORF-Zentrum), 1968-1975.

!Publications
Die Behausungsfrage, 1947; Staedtebaul. Prosa, 1948; 
Ebenerdige Wohnhaeuser, 1948; Die gegliederte und aufgelockerte Stadt, 
1957; Anonymes Bauen N-Bgld., 1961; Planungskonzept Vienna, 1963; Fuer 
eine lebensgerechtere Stadt, 1974; Anonymes Bauen im Irak, 1977; Die 
Welt als Garten - China, 1978; Kriterien der wohnl. Stadt, 1978; 
Lebensgerechtes Bauen, 1978; Bauen und Architektur, 1980; An den Rand 
geschrieben. Wohnkultur - Stadtkultur, 2000.

!Literature
R. R. Arbeiten aus 65 Jahren, 1990; R. R. Vitale 
Urbanitaet, exhibition catalogue, Oesterreichisches Museum fuer 
angewandte Kunst, Vienna 1995.


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