Quote by: Charles Jencks

Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.


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Author Bio


  • NameCharles Jencks
  • DescriptionArchitecture theorist, critic and landscape architect
  • Born1939
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionArchitect; Historian