Although the rhetoric of Dom-ino is based on technical performance, its vertical structure is not entirely rigid, and its beamless slabs are inefficient. Here, alleged simplicity generates real complexity. Partitions and skin detach from any tectonic rationale to no longer be discussed in terms of finite form, but as flexible, interchangeable shapes. As the physical elements that helped relate the self to the world disappear, a new inhabitant emerges – more free yet condemned to permanent instability. This talk traces shifts through a genealogy of projects that either resisted or exacerbated the Dom-ino model, thus exposing its fundamentally ideological character.