Kornél Rados

* Pozsonynádas, February 25, 1901 – † Budapest, May 27, 1985 / engineer, university professor ; ; He graduated from the Faculty of Engineering of the József Nádor Technical University in Budapest in 1926. As a young engineer, he worked in private design offices, where he gained construction experience in addition to design and surveying tasks. In 1932, he opened a design office in Budapest dealing with the statics of building and civil engineering structures. Until 1944, in addition to the designs of the supporting structures of more than 80 different industrial, public and residential buildings, he solved the engineering tasks of the reinforced concrete bridge in Nyergesújfalu and the Újpest-Káposztásmegyer lifting station. In October 1944, he was subjected to forced labor, then deported, and returned home in November 1945. Between 1945 and 1948, he was the chief technical advisor and then the senior advisor of the Department of Construction and Urban Planning of the Capital City. Between 1948 and 1950, he was the head of the Institute of Architectural Science. From September 1950, he was a professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Civil Engineering and Transport. He organized the Department of Industrial and Agricultural Building Design, of which he was the head until 1971, when he retired. Between 1952 and 1954 and 1957 and 1960, he was the rector of the BME. He was a founding member of the Association of Hungarian Architects, the Urban Planning Society, and the Construction Industry Scientific Association, and was the vice-president and then president of the latter between 1949 and 1969. The entirety of industrial architecture is covered in his five-volume work entitled The Architecture of Industrial Estates. Among his engineering works, the reconstructions carried out on the Goldberg factory site and the new buildings built there, the Hungarian Fashion Hall in Budapest, a boathouse in Békásmegyer, a cold storage in Kiskunhalas, the Hydroxygen Factory in Budapest, the Megyeri út civil school in Újpest, the Zagyvapálfalva glass factory, and the Záhony locomotive shed are worth mentioning.