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Architects, development practitioners and designers are working in a global environment and issues such as environmental and cultural sustainability matter more than ever. This book looks at what it means for practitioners to practice architecture on a global scale and provides a blueprint for developing architectural practices.

Environmental planning --- Architecture --- Economic geography --- Developing countries --- Architectural practice --- Architecture and society. --- Economic aspects. --- Sociological aspects --- Social aspects. --- Architecture - Economic aspects. --- Architectural practice - Sociological aspects

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"A pioneering look at the ways in which contemporary architecture serves the interests of the capitalist class, from global North to South and through to the petro-cities of the Gulf States In the last quarter century, a new form of iconic architecture has appeared throughout the world's major cities. Typically designed by globe-trotting "starchitects" or by a few large transnational architectural firms, these projects are almost always driven by private interests. In The Icon Project, sociologist Leslie Sklair focuses on ways in which capitalist globalization is produced and represented all over the world, especially in globalizing cities. Sklair traces how the iconic buildings of our era-elaborate shopping malls, spectacular museums and vast urban megaprojects-constitute the triumphal "Icon Project" of contemporary global capitalism, promoting increasing inequality and hyperconsumerism. He sets out to explain how the architecture industry organizes the social production and marketing of iconic structures and how corporations increasingly dominate the built environment and promote the trend towards globalizing, consumerist cities. The Icon Project, Sklair argues, is a weapon in the struggle to solidify capitalist hegemony as well as reinforce transnational capitalist control of where we live, what we consume, and how we think"--

ARCHITECTURE / Professional Practice. --- ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning. --- Architecture and globalization. --- Architecture --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Urban & Regional. --- Capitalism --- Globalization --- Economic aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Architecture and globalization --- Economic aspects --- Social aspects --- Architecture - Economic aspects --- Globalization - Economic aspects --- Capitalism - Social aspects

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Étude sur la manière dont la discipline de l'architecture s'est adaptée aux pressions et phénomènes sociaux, aux changements radicaux des politiques économiques et culturelles, aux moments de crises et d'hostilités depuis 1966 à 2001 au point de ''ressusciter'' pour devenir une discipline libre et autonome capable de former des architectes de renom

Architecture and society --- Architecture --- Architecture et société --- History --- Economic aspects. --- Histoire --- Aspect économique --- 72.03 --- 72.036 --- 72.01 --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Architectuur (geschiedenis) --- Architectuurgeschiedenis --- 20ste eeuw (architectuur) --- Twintigste eeuw (architectuur) --- Architectuur (theorie) --- Architectuurtheorie --- Design and construction --- Social aspects --- Human factors --- Architecture and neoliberalism. --- Architecture et société --- Aspect économique --- Economic aspects --- Analyse de l'architecture --- Crise --- Politique économique --- Postmodernisme --- 1945-2000 --- Architecture contemporaine --- Barthes, Roland, --- Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund, --- Benjamin, Walter, --- Habermas, Jürgen, --- Kaufmann, Emil, --- Jencks, Charles, --- Eisenman, Peter, --- Loos, Adolf, --- Koetter, Fred, --- Rowe, Colin, --- Foucault, Michel, --- Bourdieu, Pierre, --- Etats-Unis --- Architecture, Primitive --- Architecture and society - History - 20th century --- Architecture and society - History - 21st century --- Architecture - Economic aspects --- Barthes, Roland, 1915-1980 --- Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund, 1903-1969 --- Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 --- Habermas, Jürgen, 1929 --- -Kaufmann, Emil, 1891-1953 --- Jencks, Charles, 1939-2019 --- Eisenman, Peter, 1932 --- -Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933 --- Koetter, Fred, 1938 --- -Rowe, Colin, 1920-1999 --- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 --- Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002