{"id":2859,"date":"2009-10-15T04:20:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T04:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=2859"},"modified":"2009-10-15T04:20:15","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T04:20:15","slug":"death-of-modernism-the-human-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/death-of-modernism-the-human-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of modernism: the human story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/pruitt-igoe-1958.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2879\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/15\/death-of-modernism-the-human-story\/pruitt-igoe-demolition-color1a2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2879\" title=\"pruitt-igoe-demolition-color1a2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/pruitt-igoe-demolition-color1a2.jpg\" alt=\"pruitt-igoe-demolition-color1a2\" width=\"775\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/pruitt-igoe-demolition-color1a2.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/pruitt-igoe-demolition-color1a2-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/pruitt-igoe-demolition-color1a2-768x332.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/pruitt-igoe-demolition-color1a2-624x270.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a>The Demolition of Pruitt-Igoe in St Louis is identified (following Charles Jencks) as the moment when Modernism in architecture died.\u00a0 Architects are the bad guys in this story.[ <a href=\"http:\/\/affordablehousinginstitute.org\/blogs\/us\/2009\/07\/big-bad-blocks-part-1-blame-the-architects.html\">http:\/\/affordablehousinginstitute.org\/blogs\/us\/2009\/07\/big-bad-blocks-part-1-blame-the-architects.html<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<p>And viewing the following sequence\u00a0 of the Pruitt-Igoe demolition in the film <em>Koyaanisqatsi <\/em>it is not difficult to\u00a0follow the popular sentiment.[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7ZF1e24FPpo\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7ZF1e24FPpo<\/a> ] Music by Philip Glass.<\/p>\n<p>However, the world we sometimes do acknowledge, is a complex place&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Christine Wonoseputro contextualises the &#8216;moment&#8217; in theoretical terms within the history of architecture as art.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/transmaterialasia.wordpress.com\/2006\/11\/01\/hadids-metaphors-reading-her-biography-from-the-way-of-thinking\/\">http:\/\/transmaterialasia.wordpress.com\/2006\/11\/01\/hadids-metaphors-reading-her-biography-from-the-way-of-thinking\/<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<p>Yet the memoirs of a medical student and his wife a nurse &#8220;in a 9 story large reddish-tan brick building in the Pruitt-Igoe city housing at 1300 S. 14th&#8221; presents quite another picture of the development as it was when first completed and occupied (and imagined).\u00a0In <em>Urban Design: a typology<\/em> by Jon T Lang (2005) Pruitt-Igoe\u00a0is described as\u00a0the first racially integrated public housing development in St Louis. (p181)<\/p>\n<p>Not the slum &#8211; it was to become\u00a0 &#8211; usually associated with the legend.[ <a href=\"http:\/\/gagronert.com\/chapter6.htm\">http:\/\/gagronert.com\/chapter6.htm<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<p>It is said that the residential mix of the development &#8220;overwhelmingly welfare dependent single mothers&#8221; (p182) was not the household mix that had been expected when the complex was designed.<\/p>\n<p>The couple in question occupied their flat for only a year. I assume\u00a0this was the duration\u00a0he was working at the St Louis hospital? From a landscape persepctive it is worth asking\u00a0&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/pruitt-igoe-1958.jpg\"><\/a> what happened to the rivers of trees?<\/p>\n<p>The architect is said to have lamented &#8220;I never thought people were that destructive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/reference.findtarget.com\/search\/Pruitt-Igoe\/\">http:\/\/reference.findtarget.com\/search\/Pruitt-Igoe\/<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Demolition of Pruitt-Igoe in St Louis is identified (following Charles Jencks) as the moment when Modernism in architecture died.\u00a0 Architects are the bad guys in this story.[ http:\/\/affordablehousinginstitute.org\/blogs\/us\/2009\/07\/big-bad-blocks-part-1-blame-the-architects.html ] And viewing the following sequence\u00a0 of the Pruitt-Igoe demolition in the film Koyaanisqatsi it is not difficult to\u00a0follow the popular sentiment.[ http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7ZF1e24FPpo ] Music by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}