© Jan Derwig
PRIVATE HOUSE NAALDEN
DOM J.TH. VAN DER LAAN, -1982
Bakpers 9, Best
ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Dom Hans van der Laan
BUILDING TYPE:
Freestanding houses
ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Dom Hans van der Laan
BUILDING TYPE:
Freestanding houses
PUBLICATIONS:
de Architect 1989-5; G. van Zeijl - Architectuur in Zuidoost Brabant, 1989; Casabella 1996-5
The monk-architect Van der Laan was one of the few contemporary architects to succeed in applying a meticulously described architectural theory to a built oeuvre. The basis of his theory is a series of dimensions and proportions, the 'plastic number', which brings together all building components in a harmonious, measurable sequence. The Naalden house, a subdued composition of three rectangular masses in a few similarly subdued materials ranged around a courtyard, shows that the plastic number theory can produce an architecture of great power.