1914 - 2014: Le Corbusier Maison Dom-ino
Basking in the Venetian summer,
Le Corbusier's Maison Dom-ino house
marks its 100th year anniversary of its design inception being fully realised
and constructed for the first time by a team from the AA School of
Architecture, London.
Originally designed for the anticipated rapid growth in building & housing, demanded by the dawn of modernism and to rebuild destroyed cites from WWI, the Dom-ino fittingly and precisely responds to the overarching Biennale theme of Fundamentals Absorbing Modernity 1914-2014.
Changes and impacts from the political and social landscapes upon architecture and construction, meant that Le Corbusier's vision was never constructed or realised. One hundred years later, the Fundamental modernist elements of the slab and column are maintained and explored in its physical and theoretical contribution to modernism; however the material has now been re-addressed – now built from engineered timber, it presents a layering of technology in construction to give a contemporary context and renewed role for the Dom-ino in today's architecture.
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| Realised 100 years on - Maison Dom-ino |
Originally designed for the anticipated rapid growth in building & housing, demanded by the dawn of modernism and to rebuild destroyed cites from WWI, the Dom-ino fittingly and precisely responds to the overarching Biennale theme of Fundamentals Absorbing Modernity 1914-2014.
Changes and impacts from the political and social landscapes upon architecture and construction, meant that Le Corbusier's vision was never constructed or realised. One hundred years later, the Fundamental modernist elements of the slab and column are maintained and explored in its physical and theoretical contribution to modernism; however the material has now been re-addressed – now built from engineered timber, it presents a layering of technology in construction to give a contemporary context and renewed role for the Dom-ino in today's architecture.
Read up and hear more on this 1:1 realisation with an AA London talk
After its debut at
the Venice Architecture Biennale 2014, it will travel to the AA at Bedford Sq.
London and onto other locations globally.
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| On the lawns of the Giardini Flanking the Central Pavilion, as lead-in to Rem Koolhass's 15 Elements of Architecture thematic exhibition |
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