Hans van der Laan belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Hans van der Laan as Dutch architect (1904–1991).
Hans van der Laan was born at Leiden in 1904. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of the Netherlands. He trained at Delft University of Technology.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as architect, textile designer and designer.
His work is associated with bossche school.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in Kingdom of the Netherlands shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Hans van der Laan died in 1991, aged 87. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Movement: Bossche School
- Trained at Delft University of Technology
