A House to Live With: 16 Variations by Dom Hans van der Laan and His Companions

Examines sixteen residential buildings designed by Dom Hans van der Laan and his students for the first time.

Today, Dom Hans van der Laan (1904-91) is something of a cult figure of European 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 ...