![]() This talk examines Le Corbusier’s responses to the devastation caused by the First and Second World Wars by comparing his solutions for refugee housing. While Dom-ino used modern construction methods and materials, most notably prefabricated steel scaffolding and reinforced concrete, Maisons Murondins (1940) was conceived to provide temporary shelter and was to be constructed by local youth groups using readily available local materials such as pise (mud), tree trunks and branches. Working primarily with the Villa Stein/de Monzie and the Pavillon Suisse, the lecture will conclude with an overview of the motif in later architectural and graphic works.įrom La Maison Dom-ino to Les Maisons Murondins: Le Corbusier’s Housing for War Victims This talk will suggest that the Dom-ino configuration is part of a family of combinatory frameworks for Le Corbusier. Seemingly ‘rational’, they are theatres of distortion and iconographic intensity. This discussion will explore the piloti and its gradual incorporation into the Dom-ino principle.ġ1.30 Peter Carl, Metropolitan University, London Concrete piers indicated in the patent application plans and perspectives of 1915 were to be absorbed by enclosing and partition walls. However, the element’s distinctive feature – a circular plan and unarticulated cylindrical form – comprised no part of the Dom-ino project. The conceptual and visual detachment of the support from the supported, and the separation of structure from enclosure is only resolved through the use of the piloti. In the public imagination the ‘invention’ of the Domino system and the piloti are almost coterminous. It will then address the impact of Dom-ino on the formation of ‘Five Points’ and the nature of that process.ġ1.00 Tim Benton, Open University, London This talk will first attempt a reading of the ‘Five Points’, questioning whether Le Corbusier saw it as a functionalist statement about architecture or something else entirely. ![]() Together, the former’s tentative exploration and the latter’s synthetic distillation frame a decade of enormous growth for the architect. Le Corbusier’s Dom-ino project (1914–17) and his ‘Five Points of a New Architecture’ (1927) are linked by their reliance on a rigid post-and-slab structure. Placed within its contemporary urban condition, this symposium investigates the enduring relevance of Dom-ino.ġ0.30 Francesco Passanti, University of Texas Today, however, Dom-ino looms as a representation of our slum-like megalopolis, illustrating the industrialisation of housing construction and the vernacular appropriation of itself as a generic model. The system – an acronym that combined domus and innovation – never saw production but became an emblematic project of twentieth-century architecture and a precursor to one of the most widespread building systems: the concrete structural frame. Never has architecture been stripped so bare. One hundred years ago Le Corbusier developed Dom-ino, a housing prototype consisting of horizontal slabs and pilotis that reduced the building to its minimum. A One-Day Symposium at the Architectural Association, London
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