Gert Jan Willemse was a Dutch architect whose major work consists of a series of books. Consisting of small pencil drawings that could take several weeks to make and inspired by literary sources, these books seem to show a ‘Design for a world without people’, to quote the Austrian writer Peter Rosei, who was one of the inspirational sources of this beautiful work. Born in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, in 1957, Gert Jan Willemse took his own life in Switzerland in 1987. In a conversation with Bart Lootsma that was published in HUNCH, Pier Vittorio Aureli considers this work as the particular Dutch contribution to what he has recently called “The Project of Autonomy” in a very interesting book that was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2008, which is subtitled: “Politics and Architecture within and against Capitalism”.