Detailing the birth, life and death of America’s first major urban housing project in St. Louis, Chad Freidrichs’ “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth” combines concise but thoroughgoing sociological-historical ...
Trailer for the documentary film "The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: an Urban History". www.pruitt-igoe.com Unfortunately you've used all of your gifts this month. Your counter will reset on the first day of next ...
It’s almost a truism in the art and architectural world that the detonation of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex in St. Louis was the moment that Modernism ended. The movie poster. It was a theory first ...
ST. LOUIS • During World War II, the crowded city's 860,000 residents included many newcomers who found jobs in defense plants and housing in grim 19th-century tenements. War's end ignited demand for ...
On the 50th anniversary of the demolition of the Pruitt-Igoe, it's nearly impossible to understate the failure of the St. Louis public housing project. Famed architect Minoro Yamasaki, who would go on ...
Completed in 1954 and demolished in 1972, the 33-building Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis has been used to support diverse social theories—that government funding is bad; that modernist ...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ben Phillips’ childhood memories include basketball games with friends, and neighbors gathering in the summer shade at their St. Louis housing complex. He also remembers watching men ...
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