Herman Hertzbergers Projekte für Berlin (in German) - Inken Baller;Brigitte Jacob

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 Hertzberger’s Berlin projects, together with architectural historian Brigitte Jacob, documents for the first time all of the Dutch architect’s 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.