Dutch Architect Herman Hertzberger Wins Royal Gold Medal

Over the last couple of years, the Royal Institute of British Architects have awarded their top prize, the Royal Gold Medal, to a few of the biggest names in the business, with wins by David Chipperfield this year, and I.M. Pei the year before. For 2012, they’ve headed in perhaps a lesser known direction, awarding the lifetime achievement prize to Dutch architect Herman Hertzberger. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, then it’s likely that you don’t live in the Netherlands, where he’s been a prolific architect since the 1960s, really hitting his stride in landing commissions on multiple projects in the 2000s (we highly recommend spending the next few minutes scrolling through his work on his