"DOON: the idea of the most simple, honest, primitive hut on which all subsequent architecture is based."

doon, domus, house

Index of Work

Build A Better Burb / Eyebrow House / Tacoma Art Museum Plaza / Stealth Addition / Bull Mountain / Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial / Clinton Presidential Library / Groen Hoek Boathouse / Notebooks / NYC Apartment / Asplund Library / NYC Apartment 2 /

Writings

Press Release July 16, 2010 / “Scaleless” available for purchase / Eyebrow House - Steelmaster / Eyebrow House in Apartment Therapy / Scaleless, Omnibus Edition / Eyebrow House on the Portland Architecture Blog / Foda Studio-Doon Architecture / Long-suffering wife / Notes on Building our House / Doon Architecture in AIA “Practicing Architecture” / “Slat-ism!” / Jazz Music and Architecture / Doon Architecture in Portland Spaces Magazine / Portland - Critical Regionalism Redacted / doon, domus, house /

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The Doon (Armenian; home, house, family) is the primordial dwelling (dom- in western languages, thus domus, the Latin for house). The idea of the most simple, honest primitive hut on which all subsequent architecture is based. It indicates an origination point for our architecture in myth and culture.

The Doon logo reflects the fundamentality of our concerns. It integrates English alphabet symbols and Armenian alphabet symbols, or Yergatakir (Iron-Script), while making spatial and architectural inferences.

In the modern Armenian transliteration system from Armenian letters to English ones, the English spelling is "TOWN" but the pronunciation is "doon."

"doon-uh" (the home)
"doon-muh" (a home)
"doon-us" (my home)
"doon-ut" (your home)

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