C.A.R.A. asbl
Centre d'Assistance
à la Recherche et à la
Formation en Architecture

Informations pratiques :

• 30/1/2015, 13:00.
• Venue: Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture – Lecture Hall – 36 Bedford Square – London WC1B 3ES.
  
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Extrait :

In the autumn of 1914 a young Swiss artist moves to Paris, imagining a life in architecture. His first project is giving himself a new name. His second is giving architecture a new project. He does this with the invention of a universal building system he calls Maison Dom-ino. Soon after Dom-ino is drawn Europe is indeed destroyed. It is eventually rebuilt; not once but twice. But not with his patented system. Consequently, Dom-ino’s ideas are left to the architect himself to tinker with; a personalised prototype for further theoretical refinement, not industrial application. This is the condition that instigates its influential afterlife, as a vessel for ideas more than a vehicle of inhabitation.