It was about time that a film was made about the architect Herman Hertzberger, his oeuvre and his motives! A cinematic portrait of a socially conscious person. His varied and turbulent life is the source from which he draws and constructs buildings. He doesn't build a house, a school or a factory for the architecture itself but for the life lived in it. Herman Hertzberger (1932) is undoubtedly one of the most important Dutch architects. What has defined his style? What ideas can one trace back in his architecture? How
are the buildings changing, how are they going to change? Does he still believe in his almost utopian ideas or did he form a new, different idea on the malleability of society?
