'Alphabet' 1982

Location: Traverse, Dorgelozaal

The letter can with some justice be said to be the most important human work of art of all times. Only seldom are letter designers regarded as being artists. There is some injustice in this, considering this alphabet in stone, which the Department of Architecture, Building and Planning presents to the TU/e in 1982, upon its 15^th anniversary.

The alphabet was designed according to very strict rules by the architect and Benedictine monk Dom Hans van der Laan (1905-1991). In doing so he was inspired by the perfect capitals of Roman civilization, which have continued to be the archetypes of our capital letters. The letters were hewn in blue stone by a fellow monk in the abbey of Vaals.

In a small, special booklet Van der Laan has accounted for the design. The placement in the Dorgelozaal of the Traverse also took place according to rigid, architectonic lines, and not alphabetically.

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