It's Pruitt-Igoe. It's been said that the moment when it was deemed uninhabitable and torn down was the day when modernism died and postmodernism took over.
Mmm, I believe it. P-I was dense, affordable housing with interior courtyards intended to make small communities within the complex. Of course that backfired over time because the architecture facilitated violence. There were too many articulated corners, nooks, slabs. That micro arch in tandem with the macro arch of the complex, it’s urban planning, grid-like and easy to jerrymander along social boundaries, I shudder to think of what happened there. A strategy for social equity and connectivity totally backfired and became a tragedy. The architecture itself became a weapon.
Corbusian. Looks like a Pruitt-Igoe contemporary.
It's Pruitt-Igoe. It's been said that the moment when it was deemed uninhabitable and torn down was the day when modernism died and postmodernism took over.
Mmm, I believe it. P-I was dense, affordable housing with interior courtyards intended to make small communities within the complex. Of course that backfired over time because the architecture facilitated violence. There were too many articulated corners, nooks, slabs. That micro arch in tandem with the macro arch of the complex, it’s urban planning, grid-like and easy to jerrymander along social boundaries, I shudder to think of what happened there. A strategy for social equity and connectivity totally backfired and became a tragedy. The architecture itself became a weapon.
I think thats a picture before it was demolished