the myth

I received my studio assignment last week:

Pruitt-Igoe Pasts + Futures

"The studio will reach across scales and time to map histories and design futures for the long-time vacant site where the Pruitt-Igoe housing project once stood at the edge of downtown St. Louis City."

The studio is billed as both a landscape and urban design effort.

I've had a fascination with the story of Pruitt-Igoe since I first came to St. Louis; it's been building, I feel, since I saw The Pruitt Igoe Myth: an Urban History.  

http://www.pruitt-igoe.com/

For now, I'm engrossing myself once again in the mythology of Pruitt-Igoe, trying to find a way into the project.