The Proof of the Pudding
Patrick Minks, Jaap Veldhoen / NL, 2022 / 100 min.
Insurance company Centraal Beheer’s office building in Apeldoorn, that dates back to 1972, is the pinnacle of the impressive career of the by now 90-year-old architect Herman Hertzberger. However what will remain of Hertzberger’s social, humanist ideals now plans have been laid to repurpose his masterpiece (as habitation)?
Herman Hertzberger’s work is structuralist, a movement that rejected the cold, above-human scale of contemporary architecture during thew 1960s and 1970s. perhaps the best example of office architecture tailored to humans and their interactions as a guiding principle is Hertzberger’s design for the offices of Centraal Beheer [insurance company] from 1972, with its open structure of workspaces and open plan offices.
Details
Director
Patrick Minks, Jaap Veldhoen
Production year
2022
Country
NL
Original title
The Proof of the Pudding
Length
100 min.
Language
Dutch
Subtitles
NONE
Format
DCP
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