Herman Hertzberger

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Herman Hertzberger is a Dutch architect, born in Amsterdam in 1932. He completed his studies at the Delft University of Technology in 1958, where he has been a professor since 1970.

[edit] His Work

Hertzberger can be considered, along with Aldo van Eyck, as the influence behind the Dutch structuralist movement of the 1960s. He believed that the architect's role was not to provide a complete solution, but to provide a spatial framework to be eventually filled in by the users. Among Hertzberger's best known buildings are the Montessori school in Delft (1966-70) and the administration building for the Centraal Beheer Insurance Company building in Apeldoorn (1970-72).