The Ghost of Pruitt-Igoe . . . Follow this link
“Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri on July 15, 1972 at 3.32 pm (or thereabouts) when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grâce by dynamite.”
Charles Jencks
The New Paradigm in Architecture: The Language of Post-Modernism
The New Paradigm in Architecture: The Language of Post-Modernism
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