Summary It began as a housing marvel. Built in 1956, Pruitt-Igoe was heralded as the model public housing project of the future, "the poor man's penthouse." Two decades later, it ended in rubble - its razing an iconic event that the architectural theorist Charles Jencks famously called the death of modernism. The footage and images of its implos...
Directed By: Chad Freidrichs
Written By: Jaime Freidrichs, Chad Freidrichs
Summary It began as a housing marvel. Built in 1956, Pruitt-Igoe was heralded as the model public housing project of the future, "the poor man's penthouse." Two decades later, it ended in rubble - its razing an iconic event that the architectural theorist Charles Jencks famously called the death of modernism. The footage and images of its implos...
Directed By: Chad Freidrichs
Written By: Jaime Freidrichs, Chad Freidrichs
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