Architect Day: Architectuurstudio HH

Office located in Madrid, formed by Spanish architects Atxu Amann, Andrés Cánovas and Nicolas Maruri.

Herman Hertzberger was born in 1932 in Holland, studied at Delft University of Technology, graduating in 1958, the same year he founded his architecture office in Amsterdam. Beginning in the attic of his home office has had success, new addresses and since 1992 is located in a building where a school in the vibrant Albert Cuyp market.

Architect Day: Architectuurstudio HH
Three residential building, Apeldoorn, Netherlands. photo © Jeroen Musch

“What matters is the interaction of form and users, what they convey to each other and bring about in each other, and how they mutually take possession of each other.” (Hertzberger, 1973).

Faculty of Science, Ultrecht University, Netherlands

Architect Day: Architectuurstudio HH
photo © Herman van Doorn, Jeroen Musch

Frij’Hof, urban plan and housing, Nijmegen, Netherlands

Architect Day: Architectuurstudio HH
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NHL University, Leeuwarden, Netherlands

Architect Day: Architectuurstudio HH
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Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Architect Day: Architectuurstudio HH
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Waterrijk, Urban room 5, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Architect Day: Architectuurstudio HH
photo © Katja Effting, René van Dongen/Dondigi

Aramis Alleewonen office, Rosendaal, Netherlands

Architect Day: Architectuurstudio HH
photo © ahh.nl

De Opmaat extended school, Arnhem, Netherlands

Architect Day: Architectuurstudio HH
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Fire Station Zwolle, Netherlands

Sewage Treatment Plant, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Mezenhof interlinked single-family houses, Veerse Poort Middelburg, Netherlands

Elongated housing, Middelburg, Netherlands

About the author

My name is Marcelo Seferin, I’m an architect from Porto Alegre, Brazil and I’m the chief architect at Seferin Arquitetura, an office that works with architecture, interior design and sustainability projects. You can check our work at http://www.seferin.com.br and you can follow me at twiiter http://www.twitter.com/mseferin.