![]() ![]() Le Corbusier was just 27 when he conceived of the Dom-ino – so called because the houses could be joined end to end like dominos, and hyphenated to combine “domus” and “innovation”.īy November 1914, one fifth of the Belgian population was homeless. The first case in architectural history of a house designed as an open system Fill a room with Le Corbusier scholars and the proceedings will tend towards the arcane, but I stuck with them, not just because I was presenting at the end of the day but because of what the Dom-ino represents: perhaps the first case in architectural history of a house designed as an open system, a “platform” – to use some Silicon Valley jargon – for residents to complete as they see fit. The Architectural Association in London kicked off the commemorations last week with The Dom-ino Effect, a symposium dedicated to Corb’s idea. Indeed, it is far more relevant today than it was then. That simple drawing has haunted architecture for a century. And yet it was the devastation of Flanders in the autumn of 1914 that inspired Le Corbusier to design the Maison Dom-ino, a standardised construction system for the reconstruction effort that was to come. When Europe marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War later this year, few people will be thinking about architecture. “The perfect architectural symbol for an era obsessed with customisation and participation”Īny major anniversary carries with it a baggage of minor ones, and so it is in 2014. ![]()
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