The Icon Project: Architecture, Cities, and Capitalist Globalization

by Leslie Sklair (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2017

  $45.84

  The Icon Project argues that the transnational capitalist class mobilizes two forms of iconic architecture - unique icons recognized as works of art, notably designed by global starchitects (such as Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid); and typical icons copying elements of unique icons - to promote the same ideological message: the culture-ideology of consumerism.