Hendrik Petrus Berlage, 1856-1934, is considered the father of modern Dutch architecture and who will try to achieve a more rational and austere type of architecture, he proposes a break with historicisms and cleans the path of different kind of styles.  He built the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, a building that trusts expression and power to the brickyard post without ornament and which shows the spaces behind it, is a much more transparent approach in relation to what is behind, he open spaces that are covered with trusses.

He is known from South Extension plan of Amsterdam, also what will characterize him is the rejection of the idea of ​​dispersion associated with the garden city. Commitment to use the corridor street, closed blocks less densified as they have been used so far. The grounds are within yards of apples, large areas with equipment. The city is built from the very walls, of which the height is limited.