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the Pruitt-Igoe sequence from the episode "Trouble in Utopia" from the series "The Shock of the New". Narrated by Robert Hughes. (1981)
Descripion of episode:
Trouble in Utopia - Episode 4
How modern architects in the wake of the Bauhaus aspired to change societies with their designs, a move represented both by Le Corbusier and the plans for the city Brasilia.
Appropriation of the demolition of Pruitt-Igoe in synchronisation with the elegiac sound of Erik Satie.
The Pruitt-Igoe housing project was one of the first demolitions of modernist architecture and its destruction was claimed by postmodern architect Charles Jencks to mark, "the day Modern Architecture died." (Charles Jencks. The Language of Post-Modern Architecture. Rizzoli. 1977. Page 9.)