A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
What is Pruitt-Igoe, now? Forty years after the cinematic blast of tower C-15, the site of the housing complex still lays fallow, labeled dystopian by postmodern architectural discourse and ignored by contemporary St. Louis politics. In June 2011, a non-profit agency launched an international ideas competition soliciting proposals for this site: Pruitt-Igoe Now. The submissions received and juried suggest what Pruitt-Igoe is, now, to a global community of designers—both literally, as they imagine the future of this allegedly failed utopian site and, unavoidably, metaphorically, as nearly every proposal advances a utopian framework of systems in which architecture takes a secondary or even tertiary role.
What is Pruitt-Igoe, now? Forty years after the cinematic blast of tower C-15, the site of the housing complex still lays fallow, labeled dystopian by postmodern architectural discourse and ignored by contemporary St. Louis politics. In June 2011, a non-profit agency launched an international ideas competition soliciting proposals for this site: Pruitt-Igoe Now. The submissions received and juried suggest what Pruitt-Igoe is, now, to a global community of designers—both literally, as they imagine the future of this allegedly failed utopian site and, unavoidably, metaphorically, as nearly every proposal advances a utopian framework of systems in which architecture takes a secondary or even tertiary role.
Pruitt-Igoe, Now
Wendl, Nora (author)
Journal of Architectural Education ; 67 ; 106-117
2013-03-07
12 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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