Shaping Freedom: Architecture 1959-2025 - Herman Hertzberger urban art façade layers

façade layers

herself and the people she wants to advocate and perpetuate

The author shows the intricate relationships between different cultures’ textile traditions and demonstrates the significance of the materials we all take for granted in our everyday lives

90 photos have been subjected to analogue and digital processes

is also a history of humanity

Shaping Freedom: Architecture 1959-2025 - Herman Hertzberger urban art façade layersThis book, a reflection on Herman Hertzbergers legacy, spanning from 1959 to today, is as much about making architecture as it is about world making. The Dutch architect never considered his works as stand alone objects, but rather as parts of webs of connections on different scales. In this collection of texts, photographs, drawings, his own work, and architecture and art by others, all of these layers come together to form a universe of