![]() ![]() But in 1965, the magazine re-examined the reality of the project and declared it a failure. Architectural Forum did praise his original proposal as 1951’s “best high apartment”, citing its spatial efficiency, allowance for plenty of outdoor green space and innovations such as limited-stop elevators. Those inclined to read the story of Pruitt-Igoe as a morality play of 20th-century architectural hubris tend to describe Yamasaki’s design, laughingly, as “award-winning” when in fact it won no such thing. The Korean War and squabbles in Congress ensured that the construction budget only got more straitened thereafter, resulting in poor build quality and cheap fixtures that showed strain not long after the first occupants arrived. ![]() Objecting to the price of his plan, the Public Housing Administration insisted on a cost-saving uniform tower height of 11 storeys. ![]() Photograph: Lee Balterman/Time & Life Pictures/Getty ImagesĬommissioned to design a public housing project federally financed under the Housing Act of 1949, the Japanese-American architect at first came up with a mixed-rise cluster of buildings. The second stage of demolition of the Pruitt-Igoe complex in April 1972. ![]()
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