A house to live with / Caroline Voet, Hans W. van der Laan.

Main entry:

Voet, Caroline, author.

Title & Author:

A house to live with / Caroline Voet, Hans W. van der Laan.

Publication:

Zürich : Park Books, [2025]
©2025

Description:

420 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map, plans ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Making the house / Caroline Voet -- The Bossche School / Caroline Voet -- The house built by numbers / Caroline Voet -- Spatial comprehension in architecture / Hans W. van der Laan -- Dom Hans van der Laan's design for a logo / Han W. van der Laan -- Learning from the Roman House / Nicola Panzini.

Summary:

"Dom Hans van der Laan (1904-91) is something of a cult figure of post-World War II architecture. The Dutch Benedictine monk and architect dedicated his life to the search for fundamental principles of architecture, and his thoughts on numerical relationships and dimensional systems were highly influential in mid-twentieth-century architectural theory. A House to Live With is the first book to comprehensively explore the residential buildings designed by Van der Laan and his companions. Sixteen of them, built between 1966 and 1985, are featured in full detail through photographs and plans newly produced for this book, and analyzed with regard to their compositional and design principles. Essays examine the mathematical relationships of numbers and volumes that are fundamental to van der Laan's designs, alongside discussion of how he was influenced by ancient Roman architecture. Light is shed also on the interplay of house and garden and house and patio, and the positioning of the one large table in the house, which to van der Laan was of key significance. Thoroughly researched and highly readable, this volume introduces Hans van der Laan's architectural ideas and housing designs in full, thus forming a rich and useful source for contemporary architects."--Back cover.

ISBN:

9783038603764 hardbound
3038603767

Subject:

Laan, Hans van der Criticism and interpretation.
Architecture, Domestic Netherlands 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture 20e siècle.

Added entries:

Laan, Hans W. van der, author.
Panzini, Nicola, 1984- contributor.

Subtitle from cover: 16 variations by Dom Hans van der Laan and his companions

Holdings:

Location: Library main
Copy: 1
Status: On Order

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