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A House to Live With

16 Variations by Dom Hans van der Laan and His Companions


  • Park Books (ACC)
  • by Caroline Voet & Hans W. van der Laan
A House to Live With is the first book to comprehensively explore van der Laan's residential buildings. Sixteen of them, built between 1966 and 1985, are featured in full detail through photographs and plans newly produced for this book, and analysed 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.

ISBN 9783038603764 | EN | HB
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Publisher Park Books (ACC)
ISBN 9783038603764
Author(s) Caroline Voet & Hans W. van der Laan
Publication date November 2024
Edition Hardback
Dimensions 280 x 210 mm
Illustrations 850 col.ill. | 150 bw.ill.
Pages 432
Language(s) English ed.
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A House to Live With is the first book to comprehensively explore van der Laan's residential buildings. Sixteen of them, built between 1966 and 1985, are featured in full detail through photographs and plans newly produced for this book, and analysed 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.