AA Bookshop: Dom Hans van der Laan in Practice

Dom Hans van der Laan in Practice: A Design Manual

Wednesday 27 May 2026, 6:00-8:00 P.M.
AA Bookshop, 33 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES
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On Wednesday, May 27, Caroline Voet will host a discussion on Dom Hans van der Laan in Practice at the AA Bookshop in London. She will be joined by Philip Christou and Bruno Silvestre, and together they will discuss drawing, the design challenges of the future, and the poetics of space, guided by the work of Dom Hans van der Laan.

About the book

In this handbook, Caroline Voet unravels the design principles of Dutch Benedictine monk and architect Dom Hans van der Laan (1904–1991). 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.