Narelle Jubelin: Contexto. For RDJ, RG & TH

THOUGHTS ON MODERNIST HOUSES text by Amelia Wallin Modern architecture died in 1972, according to architectural critic Charles Jencks. Jencks attributed its death to the demolition of 33 social housing buildings, known as Pruitt-Igoe, in Missouri, USA. Built two decades earlier as a housing solution for the urban poor, failures in maintenance and systemic neglect led to the eventual collapse of Pruitt-Igoe by controlled implosion. At the same time as plans for public housing were being drawn up to accommodate working classes, white middle class families were relocating to the suburbs in both America and Australia. A number of modernist...