Architect: Dom Hans van der Laan

Dom Hans van der Laan

Dom Hans van der Laan

Caroline Voet

On 23 November 1968 the Dutch architect and Benedictine monk Dom Hans van der Laan unfolded an eighteenth-century piece of fabric, the Douglas tartan, in order to explain the mechanisms of space to his students. Alongside his brother Nico, van der Laan had been teaching a course in church architecture,… Read More