Herman Hertzbergers Projekte für Berlin

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Herman Hertzberger, more than almost any other European architect, engaged with the urban planning and architectural issues of Berlin from the early 1980s until the turn of the millennium. Yet most of this decades-long engagement remained unbuilt: only two of the sixteen planned projects were realized, while others were abandoned as a result of the historic event of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Inken Baller, who at the time served as the local architect for Hertzbergers Berlin projects, together with architectural historian Brigitte Jacob, documents for the first time all of the Dutch architects buildings and projects developed for Berlin. In conversation, Hertzberger reflects on his work for the capital, which still offers responses to contemporary issues such as social isolation and adaptability. His collages address essential questions of spatial formation and, as tools for thinking within his body of work, represent a novelty in his oeuvre. - Unique insight into the little-known Berlin work of Herman Hertzberger, a legend of Dutch structuralism A personal perspective on fundamental principles of architecture and urban planning Previously unpublished archival material

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Prof. Inken Baller, architect in Berlin, worked from 1969 to 1989 in a joint practice with Hinrich Baller and, from 1989 onward, in her own office. She also served as local architect for Herman Hertzbergers Berlin projects. From 1989 she was Professor at the Gesamthochschule Kassel, and from 1996 at BTU Cottbus. Her main areas of work are housing construction, structural design, and building in existing contexts. Dr. Brigitte Jacob, architect and architectural historian, was a lecturer in architectural history and theory at the Berliner Hochschule für Technik (BHT) from 1999 to 2014 and a lecturer in construction technology at the Staatliche Technikerschule Berlin until 2024. Her research focuses on the architectural and urban history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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