Herman Hertzberger (born 1932) is a Dutch architect and teacher, and with Aldo van Eyck one of the leaders of Dutch Structuralism in the 1960s and 1970s. Born in Amsterdam, he studied at the Delft University of Technology, where he was a professor from 1970 to 1999, and from 1959 to 1963 he edited the magazine Forum with van Eyck and Jaap Bakema. He described his approach as "architecture as half-product" and "open structures", and wrote Lessons for Students in Architecture (1991). He received the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 2012.
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His built work runs from the Weesperflat in Amsterdam (1966) to the Chassé Theater in Breda (1995). The eight experimental Diagoon Houses in Delft (1970) were designed for their residents' participation, and the Centraal Beheer offices in Apeldoorn (1972), for an insurance company, became a key work of Structuralism, as Muziekcentrum Vredenburg in Utrecht (1979) was a 5,000-capacity concert venue whose main hall survives inside the new TivoliVredenburg. Herman Hertzberger's buildings are studied for structures that users can take over.
