I'll borrow this little description from the museum's website:
"Midcentury Modern Architecture in St. Louis: an Expanded View
Friday, November 13, 7:00 pm
The Farrell Auditorium. Free.
Mary Reid Brunstorm, doctoral candidate in art history, Washington University in St. Louis
This lecture will explore four decades of modern architecture in St. Louis, 1928-1968."
Boom.
A high point was a discussion on the rise and fall of the famous Pruitt–Igoe public housing projects. You could tell that it was an older audience because multiple times a now non-existent building would pop up on the screen and there'd be lots of oohs and ahhs of recognition.
I found the parts about the popularity of the parabola in modern architecture especially interesting. Here's a few in St. Louis that are at least parabola-ish.
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Mcdonnell_planetarium_slsc.jpg/220px-Mcdonnell_planetarium_slsc.jpg)
James S. McDonnell Planetarium
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Busch_Stadium_new_construction.jpg/1024px-Busch_Stadium_new_construction.jpg)
Busch Memorial Stadium
![Priory Chapel at Saint Louis Abbey - July 2013.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Priory_Chapel_at_Saint_Louis_Abbey_-_July_2013.jpg)
Priory Chapel
![St Louis night expblend cropped.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/St_Louis_night_expblend_cropped.jpg/800px-St_Louis_night_expblend_cropped.jpg)
The Gateway Arch looks like a parabola but is in fact apparently a catenary. If you hate yourself click that link to learn the difference.
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