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Modernism died 35 years ago today

July 15, 2007 · 1 Comment

Pruitt-Igoe, 1955
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Pruitt-Igoe, 1972
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On this day in 1972  modernist architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri at 3:32 pm when the Pruitt-Igoe buildings were dynamited. The first postmodern building had started construction one year earlier.

Categories: architecture · modernism

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