The Fall of Postmodernism and the New Empowerment

摘要

The death knell of modernism rang in tune with the violence of collapsed buildings. In his 1974 manifesto The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, historian and landscape architect Charles Jencks time-stamped this moment at 3:32 p.m., July 15,1972-the instant when Minoru Yamasaki's infamous Pruitt-Igoe public housing project in St. Louis was demolished after it was decided that it was a terrifying and unlivable environment for the people it housed. As the city council claimed, "it was impossible to control any longer the violence it generated."