Herman Hertzberger is a Dutch architect born in 1932 in Amsterdam. As a disciple of Aldo van Eyck, he was one of the main influences behind the Dutch structuralism movement. The project considered to be one of the most inspiring examples of the movement is the Centraal Beheer office building in Apeldoorn. It was designed as a sixty cubes workspace forming a single articulated unit.
Another Rome: EUR District
EUR is a residential and business area of Rome. The initial project was developped for the 1942 World Fair. It was supposed to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of PNF’s March on Rome, but the exhibition never took place due to World War II. The architecture is the execution of Italian fascist ideology, widely inspired by Roman Imperial Town Planning mixing it with Italian rationalism.
Brick by brick, 36 dwellings in Ciudad Pegaso
The architectural proposal of Luis Martínez Santa-María was thought to follow the identity of the neighborhood of Ciudad Pegaso. In order to do so, he used brick as the main and almost exclusive material. The project stages the exploitation of this single material, to get its full expression.