DOMENIC, Günther. Steinhaus - Stonehouse. [London], Architectural Association, [1986].
Square 4to. Portfolio of 16 pages of text in original printed wrappers and 22 plates after drawings and computer generated images by Domenig; all in the original printed drop-back box (minimally spotted); front wrapper minimally spotted, otherwise very good.
Very rare exhibition catalogue of the preparatory steps and studies towards the Austrian 'deconstructivest' architect's magnum opus and lasting legacy. 'Domenig’s last project saw him return to spending most of his days at the construction site. It would be his most personal and radical building. His own house, the Steinhaus on Ossiacher See was built by the lake’s shore on a large property that he had inherited from his grandmother. Domenig started the design in the late 1970s with obsessive drawings of the surrounding mountains. Very slowly, until the mid-1980s, he developed his idea for a house that looks much like a rock formed by tectonic movements … The construction started in 1986 and—with many financial and statical problems solved—was finished in 2008. “I have reached the limit in every respect,” he noted. “There is no way back. This is where it will show, what I am actually capable of achieving in architecture after all.” Four years later, he died (ArchDaily, Who Was Günther Domenig, the Unknown Deconstructivist? - online).
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