Comments on: Pruitt-Igoe section from Koyaanisqatsi

By: dead link

dead link — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:59:16 +0000

mgm don’t like you

By: moondancer

moondancer — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:45:54 +0000

When I was a kid growing up in St Louis, the Pruitt-Igoe was to be the jewel in the crown of the great society. Within months it was clear that something was very wrong. Adults were saying things like “they don’t appreciate what they got, etc..” I just remember it as a monument to the zenith of the American Empire.

By: Eamonn Doyle

Eamonn Doyle — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:09:58 +0000

I definitely think Koyaanisqatsi is a lot more hit than miss !!

By: Jim N

Jim N — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:47:46 +0000

You’d have to make the case that the failure of these buildings is that they “threw out the soul with the sewage”. As if architecture were the problem, where people had their homes taken away and replaced with newer, badly maintained ones at a higher population density, during a period of deurbanization. Not that this type of forced-radiant architecture doesn’t have inherent problems. A dozen floors, sharing two elevators, with one poorly paid janitor, is a situation where the most antisocial types will be able to have their presence amplified.