Pruitt-Igoe Site

Pruitt-Igoe Site

Photo: Unknown · Public domain

Year

1954

Landscape architect

Type

landscape

Minoru Yamasaki's 33-building public housing complex, completed in 1954 for 2,870 families, was demolished by implosion in 1972 after less than two decades of occupation, an event that the architectural critic Charles Jencks famously declar …

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