The global architect : firms, fame and urban form / Donald McNeill.
Imprint
New York : Routledge, 2009
Copies
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Female Library
NA2543.G46 M38 2009
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Description
ix, 180 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [162]-176) and index.
Contents
The globalization of architectural practice -- Designing at distance -- Architectural celebrity and the cult of the individual -- The "Bilbao effect" -- Rem Koolhaas and the heteronomy of global capitalism -- The geography of the skyscraper -- The ethics of architectural practice.
