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Bookmark or Share- Chad Freidrichs’s The Pruitt-Igoe Myth | Magazine | MoMAThe Pruitt-Igoe Myth. The filmmaker investigates the demise. of a public housing complex in St. Louis. Chad Freidrichs, Sean Anderson. Nov 2, 2020. Chad Freidrichs’s The Pruitt-Igoe Myth screened here November 2–December 13, 2020. The film is no longer available here for streaming, but you can watch the filmmaker’s introduction below.
- New documentary sheds light on the story of Pruitt-Igoe | STLPRThe high rise complex was constructed in 1954. Two decades later, and by then notorious, Pruitt-Igoe was a pile of rubble, imploded and bulldozed into history. What went wrong and why? That’s the subject of a new documentary film called The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: an Urban History.
- The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: An Urban History | ArchDailyPruitt-Igoe was built in 1954 as a solution to overcrowding in downtown St. Louis, which hit its population peak of around 850,000 people in 1950. Modernist architect Minoru Yamasaki designed...
- New Documentary Recounts Rise and Fall of an Architectural MythNew Documentary Recounts Rise and Fall of an Architectural Myth. Arts May 3, 2011 2:28 PM EDT. In St. Louis in the 1950s, Pruitt-Igoe was touted as the definitive model for public housing...
- Pruitt-Igoe Housing Project, St. Louis, Missouri (1956–1976) - BlackpastThe Pruitt -Igoe Housing Project was located in the predominantly African American and economically depressed Desoto-Carr neighborhood just north-west of downtown St Louis, Missouri. By 1956, the project totaled 33 high-rise buildings that consisted of the Wendell Oliver Pruitt Homes (1,736 units) and the William L. Igoe Apartments (1,134 units).
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