The Textbook of Architecture

The Cabinet of Models

Dom-ino frame

Le Corbusier’s 1914 diagram: three flat concrete slabs on six columns and a stair, the skeleton that frees the plan and the façade.

Dom-ino frame Open in Models ↗

Illustrates: Modernism

The rules it illustrates

The Dom-ino frame. Build the house as a standard skeleton of flat concrete slabs, a few columns set back from the slab edges, and a stair; everything else (walls, windows, partitions) is infill that can be placed freely.

Where it appears in the book

In the styles Modernism.

In the chapters Frame and Skin.

The terms it shows

Dom-ino