Herman Hertzberger

One of the leading Dutch theorists and architects of the modern age, Herman Hertzberger (1932) graduated in Engineering and Architecture in 1958, as a student of Aldo van Eyck (1918-1999) and opened his own Practice in Amsterdam that same year. During his studies, Hertzberger had already won a competition to design a student residence (1959-1966) in Amsterdam. This project, like the expansion of the LinMij factory (1964), already contained numerous recurrent features seen in his future designs, including modifying a building’s function over time, the microcosm (the house contains a restaurant, bookshop, bar and 250 student rooms), and the “dynamic equilibrium between the individual and the community which Hertzberger puts at the center of his work” (Rossi). A leading exponent of structuralism, Hertzberger also had a significant career as a teacher and theorist. He lectured at the University of Amsterdam (1965-1969), ....

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