Pruitt Igoe and the modernist demise
1949 housing act
Settled in 1954
New suburbs cheaper
Anyone with means moving
Cheaper to buy a sububarn house than rent public housing
St Lois population decline, population was expected to grow
Poor mans penthouse
Means of segregation
Case study: Venturi House
Cast study: mid post modernism art
Postmodern music
Case stusy: end of post modernism
Post modernisl laying the foundations for Norman Foster?
Post modern cinema – who framed roger rabbit
Postmodern poetry?
1939
Frederico de Onis, describes and defines ‘postmodernismo’ as a conservative reaction within modernism (in contradistinction to ‘ultra-modernism’ which positively encourages the radical impulses to modernism). ‘Postmodernismo’ comes into widespread usage in Hispanic cultural circles.
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Introduction
Pruitt Igoe and the modernist demise
1949 housing act
Settled in 1954
New suburbs cheaper
Anyone with means moving
Cheaper to buy a sububarn house than rent public housing
St Lois population decline, population was expected to grow
Poor mans penthouse
Means of segregation
Case study: Venturi House
Cast study: mid post modernism art
Postmodern music
Case stusy: end of post modernism
Post modernisl laying the foundations for Norman Foster?
Post modern cinema – who framed roger rabbit
Postmodern poetry?
1939
Frederico de Onis, describes and defines ‘postmodernismo’ as a conservative reaction within modernism (in contradistinction to ‘ultra-modernism’ which positively encourages the radical impulses to modernism). ‘Postmodernismo’ comes into widespread usage in Hispanic cultural circles.
- See more at: http://www.preceden.com/timelines/62885-postmodernism-timeline-1939-2001#sthash.MbOcSmrq.dpuf
Introduction
Pruitt Igoe and the modernist demise
1949 housing act
Settled in 1954
New suburbs cheaper