‘If you are convinced that we have lived in the best of all possible worlds until now, then you will certainly not be delighted when I tell you that this world has come to its ending.’ When one of the most respected sociologists in the world, Immanuel Wallerstein, used these words to announce the arrival of a long-lasting and painful era of changes in the world system in 1997, a period of various crises and insecurities, the construction of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao was completed and this announced the beginning of a decade in which the most lavish and extravagant buildings in the history of architecture emerged.