The icon project

The icon project: architecture, cities, and capitalist globalization

by Sklair, Leslie

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Title Statements

  • Full title :The icon project : architecture, cities, and capitalist globalization / Leslie Sklair.

Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2017

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Notes

SR7Oct18.

The Physical Object

  • Description:xiii, 329 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780190464189, 0190464186
  • oclc:on1291937502
  • LC Classification:NA2543.G46
  • Dewey Decimal:720.1/03

Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- INTRODUCTION -- The argument -- Sources -- Structure of the book -- CHAPTER 1 -- ICONIC ARCHITECTURE AND CAPITALIST GLOBALIZATION -- Architecture, Power, Aesthetics -- The Icon: history and theory of an idea -- Iconic for when -- Iconic for whom -- Iconic for where -- CHAPTER 2 -- TWO TYPES OF ICONIC ARCHITECTURE: UNIQUE AND TYPICAL -- The rise of iconic architecture -- Iconicity claims of top firms -- Starchitects and signature architects -- Architecture theme parks and other iconic projects -- CHAPTER 3 -- THE ARCHITECTURE INDUSTRY AND TYPICAL ICONS -- The sociology of architecture -- The architecture industry in the new millennium -- Successful typical icons -- Celebrity infrastructure -- CHAPTER 4 -- CORPORATE STARCHITECTS AND UNIQUE ICONS -- Frank Lloyd Wright and the FLW industry -- Le Corbusier and the Corb industry -- The rise of the starchitects -- Frank Gehry -- Norman Foster -- Rem Koolhaas -- Zaha Hadid -- CHAPTER 5 -- THE POLITICS OF ICONIC ARCHITECTURE -- Architectural iconicity and identities -- Politics and the architecture of transnational social spaces -- Iconic architecture in urban megaprojects -- Paris -- China -- CHAPTER 6 …

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Subjects

Architecture -- Aspect économique Architecture -- Economic aspects Architecture and globalization Architecture et mondialisation Capitalism -- Social aspects Globalization -- Economic aspects Mondialisation

Writers

Sklair, Leslie

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