Serialism closely related to certain works from the de Stijl and Bauhaus movements in design and architecture called "serial art" by some writers (; ; ; ), specifically the paintings of Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg, Bart van Leck, Georg van Tongerloo, Richard Paul Lohse, and Burgoyne Diller, who had been seeking to “avoid repetition and symmetry on all structural levels and working with a limited number of elements” . Stockhausen described the final synthesis in this manner: So serial thinking is something that's come into our consciousness and will be there forever: it's relativity and nothing else. It just says:
Jan van der Laan Jan van der Laan Johannes Antonius van der Laan (4 May 1896 - 24 August 1966) was a Dutch architect. Van der Laan was born in Leiden, the eldest son of the architect Leo van der Laan. He worked with his father from 1921 until Leo's death in 1942, mostly in Leiden and the surrounding area. After his father's death Jan had various partners in the architectural practice, which continued for many years to design significant buildings in the Netherlands. The partners were: Jan Hermans and Theo van der Eerden, and later Jules Kirch and Henk Blansjaar, who continued the