ABSTRACT
As a bookend to the introduction, this chapter concludes the book’s argument by tracing the global crisis around the social and financial crimes of the iconic architecture industry to the architectural discipline’s long-standing formalisation of a questionable moral and political “autonomy.” I reaffirm that iconic architecture must continue to be interrogated by urban citizens, the spectators and the media, because that is the only way the iconic architecture industry can be transformed from mesmerism and mass entertainment to a real politics and thought, to a critical architecture. Since the image today is on the wrong side of ideology, resistance must take the form of de-mythologisation of the image by those outside the discipline.
