
Point Of View
The Architect vs. The Resident: How Pruitt-Igoe Looked From Above and Below
The same 33 buildings told two completely different stories. Architect Minoru Yamasaki saw modernist towers that would liberate the poor from urban squalor; residents saw dangerous galleries, broken elevators, and a design that made community impossible. When the buildings were demolished less than 20 years after opening, whose point of view had been right all along?

