Between Looking and Making: Unravelling Dom Hans van der Laan’s Plastic Number
Between 1920 and 1991, the Dutch Benedictine monk and architect Dom Hans van der Laan (1904–91) developed his own proportional system based on the ratio 3:4, or the irrational number 1.3247. . ., which he called the plastic number. According to him, this ratio directly grew from discernment, the hum...
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| Language: | English |
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Ubiquity Press
2016-01-01
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| Series: | Architectural Histories |
| Online Access: | http://journal.eahn.org/articles/119 |