International audienceWhile images are becoming even more important to architecture, we must consider a visual economy to appreciate, study or analyse the current production. Today the rising spectacle-architecture, illustrated by the case of high rises in London, shows the prominence of the image-object as the object image. In such context, the problematic of reproduction or representation, proper to the image, should be replaced by the one of the production of an iconic and an iconographic architecture.Alors que l’image s’impose de plus en plus à l’architecture, considérer une économie visuelle est désormais nécessaire pour apprécier, étudier et analyser la production actuelle. Aujourd’hui une architecture-spectacle naissante, illustrée p...