Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-359) and index.

An Architect's Guide to Fame; Contents; Foreword, Stephen Bayley -- Prologue, Charles Rattray and David Vila Domini -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction, Paul Davies and Torsten Schmiedeknecht --
Part I Paper Architecture, What is it about the Smithsons?, Charles Rattray -- The Archigram Group, Paul Davies --
Boyarsky and the Architectural Association, David Dunster -- Fame and the Changing Role of Drawing, Jon Goodbun and Karin Jaschke -- Part II Bricks and Mortar -- Switzerland - Botta: Fame and Scale Rob Wilson -- Italy - Rossi: Fame and Familiarity, Andrew Peckham -- The Netherlands - Koolhaas and the Profession at Play, Hans van der Heijden -- Germany - (Un)edited Architecture; Wettbewerbe Aktuell, Torsten Schmiedeknecht -- Spain - The Fame Game, Javier Sánchez Merina and Hallchira Arnadóttir -- USA - Ground Zero: 1,776 ft into Thin Air, Markus Miessen -- Part III Conduits -- Editors - Architectural Design in the 1970s and 1980, Ryan McCrudden and Mat Witts -- It's not About the Work!, Laura Iloniemi -- All The Kings Men, Judith Farren-Bradley -- All The Kings Men and a Few Women, Judith Farren-Bradley --
Parte IV Portraits -- The Portraits, Julie Cook and Paul Davies -- Art, Architecture, Artists and Architects, Edward Winters --A-List Architects, Torsten Schmiedeknecht -- The Fall and Rise of Craig Ellwood, Paul Davies -- Situating Dalibor Vesely, Richard Patterson -- The Psyche of the Unit Master, Carlos Villanueva Brandt -- The Psyche of a Depressed and Disappointed Unit Master, Jonathan Harris -- Seeking Peter Zumthor, Kit Allsopp -- The Chapter According to St John, James Soane -- Notes -- Biographies -- List of Images -- Index.

Provides an inquiry into the means by which architects get work and become famous. This book examines the mechanisms by which architects seek publicity and manage to establish themselves and their work. It helps understand the complex relationship between what we see as the built environment, and the unwritten stories behind how it came about.