From Los Angeles to London to Bilbao; cities around the world nowadays boast iconic buildings by celebrity ‘starchitects’ that compete for attention on the skyline and in the media. But in recent years; criticism of these ‘gestural’ structures; famous for their exaggerated forms; has been growing. Miles Glendinning’s impassioned polemic; Architecture’s Evil Empire? looks at how such cult works have fatally subverted the built environment as a whole. How a world-wide ‘empire’ of contemporary modernism emerged within the context of global capitalism’s excesses is explained in this book.Arguing against the excesses of iconic design; Glendinning advocates a modern renewal that seeks to remedy the tragically alienated state of contemporary architecture; although his is a renewal that contrasts strongly with the traditionalist visions of America’s New Urbanists or Britain’s Prince Charles. Mingling scholarship with wry humour and a genuine concern for the present situation; Architecture’s Evil Empire? will raise heated debates across the continents; for this book is essential reading for architects; planners and everyone else concerned about the built environment of now and tomorrow.
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