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Herman Hertzberger
Herman Hertzberger's work of the 1970's and 1980's was highly rationalised, utterly 'modernistic' in its materials, geometries and detailing, without a trace of sentimentality.
It was also very serious and sensitive in its commitment to real life, as lived by real people. And from this commmitment to real experience, real complexity and density of meaning is present, almost as an emergent property (as opposed to academic complexity as performed by Venturi, or whimsical complexity, as in the confections of Bruce Goff).
This was important to me as a prelude to my engagement with Christopher Alexander, as evidence that the utterly modern, rational practice of looking at reality with an analytical eye, and acting on insights and observations thus gained in a simple, practical way, could be the underpinning of an architecture that had real depth and character that was independent of tradition or ideology or self rationalisation.
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