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 -- ARCHITECTS AS PROFESSIONALS AND IDEOLOGUES -- The criticality debate -- Third World Modernism and postcolonialisms -- Postcolonialist understandings of architecture -- Disney, China, and India -- Sustainability, human rights, and the architect's place in society -- CHAPTER 7 -- ARCHITECTURE AND THE CULTURE-IDEOLOGY OF CONSUMERISM -- Consumerist space in the city of capitalist globalization -- Architecture, consumerism, and the media -- Iconic architecture and shopping -- Performance spaces -- Displacement -- CHAPTER 8 -- ARCHITECTURE, CITIES AND ALTERNATIVE GLOBALIZATIONS -- APPENDIX Interview codes -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.