Benjamin Flowers is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the different ways in which architecture, politics, culture, and power intersect to form the built landscape. Within this broad field of inquiry, he is currently engaged in two major projects. The first is a study of the political and cultural values associated with the skyscraper in New York City over the course of the twentieth century. This project will be published as a book by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2008. His second research project involves the intersection of race and space in the discipline and practice of architecture. His research and teaching on this topic explore how architects-as a social group, as a labor market, and as arbiters of distinction- have embraced or resisted integration in the 20th century and today.