video premiere postgame

"Pruitt-Igoe : Past, Present, Future"

JD Scott and Ryan Wilson

Sketch of the Pruitt-Igoe power station, the only remaining building on the site.  The power station, now owned by Ameren, was designed by Hellmuth, Yamasaki, and Leinweber. 



View looking west on Dixon Street.



Site of the proposed Grace Baptist Church Community Center 

mapping revisions

revised mapping

sketch : looking west on Dixon [Pruitt-Igoe site]

site visit, part one

Tour Route

Sketch taken from the site of building C-15, one of the first towers in Pruitt-Igoe to be demolished; the place where Charles Jencks asserted that "modern architecture died."

Diagrams

 

















Studio Space : Givens Hall : 3rd Floor

Coming soon - a two minute film about the site and the people who venture into it.  

Still from The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

review postgame

We reviewed the mapping assignment yesterday; a great time to discuss and to think of some next steps towards a proposal.

"Renewal in the Horizontal City" : plastic lead on mylar; cutouts on plotted map :

[24" x 36"]



I feel like my project is being moved towards a simple but glaringly complex question: why do high rise public housing projects fail while low rise projects in similar contexts survive?

On Friday, we will visit the site.  It will be my second visit; I still remember the experience of the first visit.  As a professor of mine put it, it felt "like a cemetary." 
 

lines on maps

[group base map : natural systems]

The site : Jefferson and Cass



Mapping Exercise : 24" x 36"

Printed base map with plastic lead on mylar overlay