Dom Hans van der Laan in Practice: A Design Manual gift card and a handy subject guide

and a handy subject guide

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Dom Hans van der Laan in Practice: A Design Manual gift card and a handy subject guideIn this handbook, Caroline Voet unravels the design principles of Dutch Benedictine monk and architect Dom Hans van der Laan (19041991). His ideas about spatial experience and proportions in particular his unique discovery of the series of plastic numbers and the measurement system derived from it have had a major influence and are still very much alive today. Step by step, Voet redraws Van der Laans philosophy of architectural space and links it to