Herman Hertzberger. Monograph by R. McCarter

NAI 010 publishes the first in-depth survey of the complete oeuvre of Herman Hertzberger, by Robert McCarter. Herman Hertzberger is one of the most important and critically influential figures in international architecture of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. A constant champion of fundamentally humanist modern architecture, Hertzberger is rightly regarded as the world’s foremost designer of schools, a building type he has almost single-handedly redefined.

Cover. Herman Hertzberger by Robert McCarter. Image © Beukers Scholma.

Herman Hertzberger (b. 1932) believes architecture is above all else a shared, collective discipline. His world famous lessons in architecture involve ethics and edification, engagement of the built legacy of those who lived before us, and the fundamentally optimistic and constructive intention to make the world a better place for the people who live in it.

With a foreword by Kenneth Frampton, this monograph by acclaimed international author Robert McCarter examines Hertzberger’s most important architectural works through analysis of the design process and guiding ideas, particularly as these reflect Hertzberger’s engagement with the Modernist tradition, architectural history, urban space and the way we experience it.

Robert McCarter is a practising architect, author and Professor of Architecture at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St Louis, Missouri. He has written monographs on Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974), Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978), Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) and Aldo van Eyck (1918-1999).

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Title.- Herman Hertzberger.
Author.- Robert McCarter.
Design.- Beukers Scholma.
Publisher.- NAI 010.
Format.- Hardcover. 24 x 30 cm.
Number of pages.- 524 pages. Illustrated (728 full color).
Language.- English.
ISBN 978-94-6208-203-8.
With support from Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie.

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Interior pages. Herman Hertzberger by Robert McCarter. Image © NAI 010 Publishers.

Herman Hertzberger and Robert McCarter. Image © Beukers Scholma.

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Herman HERTZBERGER

Herman Hertzberger (Amsterdam, 1932) completed his studies at the Delft University of Technology in 1958, where he was a professor from 1970 to 1999. In 1958 he also opened his own architecture firm, the present-day Architectuurstudio HH.

Famous buildings designed by his firm include the headquarters for Centraal Beheer insurance company in Apeldoorn, Vredenburg Music Centre in Utrecht and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment in The Hague. He has also designed many schools, housing complexes and cultural centres, both in the Netherlands and in other countries.

Hertzberger has won a great many competitions and is an honorary member of several cultural bodies. He has received many international architecture prizes, both for individual projects and for his career.

From 1959 to 1963 Herman Hertzberger was an editor at Forum together with Aldo van Eyck and Jaap Bakema. Besides the numerous articles he has contributed to journals in his field, he has also published the following books: Lessons for Students in Architecture and Space (1991) and the Architect: Lessons in Architecture 2 (1999), a description of the ideas and principles on which his work is based. In 2008 and 2009 he published the books Space and Learning, and The Schools of Herman Hertzberger in which he explains his wide-ranging experience, knowledge and views in a theoretical treatise on the spatial conditions of learning.

Other books by hertzberger are: Accomodating the Unexpected, Projects: 1990-1995 (1995), Chassé Theater Breda (1995), Articulations (2002), Shelter for Culture. Herman Hertzberger & Apeldoorn (2004), The Theatres of Herman Hertzberger (2005), Waternet Double Tower (2006), Hertzberger's Amsterdam (2007) and NHL University (2011). In 2010 a bio-documentary entitled Searching for Space and directed by Kees Hin was released.

Published on: February 11, 2016

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