The Dutch Architect Herman Hertzberger is one of the most important and critically influential figures in international architecture of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Shaping Freedom: Architecture 1959-2025 is a reflection on his legacy, spanning from 1959 to today, is as much about making architecture as it is about world-making.
Hertzberger never considered his works as stand-alone objects, but rather as parts of webs of connections on different scales. In this book – a 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 inspirations, ideas and solutions.
Edited by Suzanne Mulder and Hans Ibelings, the book is written and compiled by Hertzberger himself and features an essay by Thomas Hertzberger.
Maas Lawrence, 272pp, 21cm x 27cm, illustrated paperback, 2025