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Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s–1970s

Friday, November 15, 2024 11 AM to 5 PM

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  • Saturday, November 16, 2024 11 AM to 5 PM
  • Sunday, November 17, 2024 11 AM to 5 PM
  • Monday, November 18, 2024 11 AM to 5 PM
  • Wednesday, November 20, 2024 11 AM to 5 PM
  • Thursday, November 21, 2024 11 AM to 5 PM
  • Friday, November 22, 2024 11 AM to 5 PM
  • Saturday, November 23, 2024 11 AM to 5 PM
  • Sunday, November 24, 2024 11 AM to 5 PM
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Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s–1970s is the first major exhibition to examine the complex connections in St. Louis among modern architecture, urban renewal, and racial and spatial change in the interlocking histories of New Deal planning, the Great Migration, and the civil rights and Great Society eras. With material drawn from the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Missouri Historical Society, and other collections, this exhibition situates some of the most celebrated works of modern architecture in St. Louis within the context of mid-twentieth-century regional developments. Using architectural drawings, models, photographs, films, digital maps, and artworks, Design Agendas explores a remarkably destructive, creative, dynamic, and conflicted time in St. Louis’s architectural and urban history.