The Pruitt-Igoe housing project was one of the first demolitions of modernist architecture and its destruction was claimed by postmodern architectural historian Charles Jencks to mark "the day Modern architecture died."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt%E2%80%93Igoe
http://www.pruitt-igoe.com/
4 comments:
Jencks was full of it.
Jencks was full of it.
I agree!
But If we allow ourselves to go with Jencks on this Idea, can we say -the day the 3 World Trade Center towers went down - the Post Modern Architectural movement ended?
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