Ada Taylor, founder and owner of Deer Valley Home Health Services and Ol’Henry Restaurant in Berkeley, Missouri, grew up in the Pruitt-Igoe housing project. A site where many blacks from the rural ...
It’s almost a truism in the art and architectural world that the detonation of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex in St. Louis was the moment that Modernism ended. The movie poster. It was a theory first ...
A tour of undergraduate architecture students touring the Pruitt Igoe site for the Pruitt Igoe Now design competition. This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining ...
ST. LOUIS — It was considered a masterpiece of urban planning when it was built in the mid-1950s. Named for African American fighter pilot Wendell O. Pruitt and a former U.S. Congressman, William L.
On the 50th anniversary of the demolition of the Pruitt-Igoe, it's nearly impossible to understate the failure of the St. Louis public housing project. Famed architect Minoro Yamasaki, who would go on ...
Former residents of a low-income, majority-Black housing development in St. Louis, Missouri, are seeking restitution from the US Army over a Cold War-era testing program they say made them ill. Ben ...
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (2011), a documentary film directed by Chad Freidrichs, explores the history of the St. Louis, Missouri housing project that became best known for its demolition in the early ...
This story was commissioned by the River City Journalism Fund. One of the Pruitt-Igoe buildings is brought down by dynamite implosion on April 29, 1972. The series of demolitions attracted spectators, ...
Artist’s conception of Natiponal Geospatial-Intelligence Agency headquarters in St. Louis, next to former Pruitt-Igoe housing complex. Provided St. Clair County lost out to North St. Louis in the ...
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