Award-winning Dutch architect Herman Hertzberger (born 1932) is one of
the most important and critically influential figures in international
architecture of the past half-century. He has consistently championed a
fundamentally humanist modern architecture, rooted in its place and
history, while simultaneously opening up new possibilities for dwelling.
Today Hertzberger is rightly regarded as the world's foremost designer
of schools, a building type he has almost singlehandedly redefined, and
his innovative and fundamentally humane workplaces constitute some of
the most compelling contemporary reinterpretations of this type of
building.
In this volume, acclaimed author and practicing architect Robert
McCarter examines Hertzberger's most important architectural works
through an analysis of the architect's design process and guiding ideas,
particularly as these reflect Hertzberger's engagement with the
modernist tradition, architectural history, urban space and the human
experience of architecture.