HERMAN HERTZBERGER – Shaping Freedom: Architecture 1959-2025 Anna’s first-person diary careens down

Anna’s first-person diary careens down a series of sinister African elevators and intersectional magic spaces

Organized according to the principle of montage

a backward glance and elegy

Man tracks it down & cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth

HERMAN HERTZBERGER – Shaping Freedom: Architecture 1959-2025 Anna’s first-person diary careens downThis book, a reflection on Herman Hertzbergers legacy, spanning from 1959 to today, is as much about making architecture as it is about world making. The Dutch architect never considered his works as stand alone objects, but rather as parts of webs of connections on different scales. In this 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