Dom-Ino house:
the meta-object 

Maison Dom-Ino is still nowadays the most influential
diagram produced in architecture. It emerges in a very
specific context as mass production model which can supply
the new demand of housing. but this diagram transcended to
its purpose, its time and even its author. Born as result
of a technological revolution in structural techniques,
reinforce concrete, part of its success is due its
simplicity. Le Corbusier's Dom-Ino seems a rather simple
and straightforward statement. Perhaps for this very
reason (its apparently extreme clarity) it is often taken
as an icon and a structural paradigm, an example of the
potential of the then new technology, a prototypical unit
expressing ideas of mass production, repetition, and so
on. (1)



(1) Peter Eisenman. Aspects of Modernism: Maison Dom-Ino and the
Self-Referantial Sign, Oppositions 15/16. 1979.