Herman hertzberger space and learning center

Dutch architect Herman Hertzberger graduated in from what is now the Technical University of Delft. His architectural practice, AHH, was established in His office is known for its many cultural buildings, schools, and residential buildings in the Netherlands and abroad.

Schools loom large in the comprehensive body of work designed by Herman Hertzberger; more than thirty have been built to date.

Hertzberger has been awarded many fellowships and received prestigious awards for individual projects as well as for his work as a whole. He has lectured at the Academy of Architecture, Amsterdam , was professor at the Technical University of Delft , visiting professor at the University of Geneva Switzerland , and chairman of the Postgraduate Berlage Institute Hertzberger's projects have been published and exhibited all over the world.

Along with many magazine articles, he wrote the books Lessons for Students in Architecture , which has been published in twelve languages, and Space and the Architect, Lessons in Architecture 2 Hertzberger's Space and Learning brings together his knowledge and ideas in a theoretical study of the spatial conditions of learning while The Schools of Herman Hertzberger presents his built and unbuilt schools, with an essay from sociologist Abram de Swaan calling Hertzberger a pre-eminently "sociological" architect.

His latest book, Architecture and Structuralism , attempts to formulate what structuralism means in architecture and why that matters, given a new impulse to the discussion about sustainability and a blueprint for a more democratic architecture. Skip to main content.

School design, according to Hertzberger, is one of the few areas in architecture today where designers are still able to define and influence human conditions.

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