{"64171":{"#nid":"64171","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Book from Georgia Tech Architecture Professor Wins National Academic Title Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESkyscraper: The Politics and Power of Building New York City in the Twentieth Century\u003C\/em\u003E, by \u003Ca title=\u0022See Benjamin Flowers Profile\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.arch.gatech.edu\/node\/11537\u0022 target=\u0022_self\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech assistant professor Benjamin Flowers\u003C\/a\u003E, was selected as a \u003Cem\u003EChoice\u003C\/em\u003E Outstanding Academic Title for 2010. The Outstanding Title designation is awarded annually to the best academic titles reviewed by the magazine and announced in the January issue.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EChoice\u003C\/em\u003E is published by the American Library Association and is considered a trusted source of news about academic books by librarians and scholars nationwide. More than 35,000 institutions subscribe to \u003Cem\u003EChoice\u003C\/em\u003E, representing nearly every undergraduate college and university library in the United States. Of the approximately 25,000 books annually submitted for consideration to \u003Cem\u003EChoice\u003C\/em\u003E, only 7,000 are reviewed by the magazine. Ten percent of those are selected as Outstanding Academic Titles. In 2010, six Outstanding Academic Titles in the field of Architecture were named.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EBook reviews in \u003Cem\u003EChoice\u003C\/em\u003E are written by senior faculty and researchers in each field of specialization and represent a prestigious form of peer-review. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the March 2010 review of Skyscraper, professor David Sachs wrote, \u201cFlowers (Georgia Institute of Technology) offers a book with value on many levels. He provides a well-researched, perceptive, and entertaining introduction to three\nimportant iconic New York buildings: the Empire State Building, the Seagram\nBuilding, and the World Trade Center. This volume presents a strong justification for, and demonstration of, a difficult but powerful way of examining buildings. It looks at what the author terms the \u0022temporal dimension\u0022 of buildings, exploring the personal, political, social, economic, and symbolic intentions and circumstances surrounding their inception, construction, and critical reception. In comparing the three buildings, Flowers articulates common themes, which play out in different ways in each of the examples, thereby illuminating key issues in the evolution of the building type (skyscrapers) and, more generally, in architectural culture through the mid-20th century. This challenging book raises many perplexing questions and refuses to provide simplistic answers. Informative footnotes, a comprehensive index, and numerous historic photographs complement the text. This work should appeal to a variety of readers\u2014from casual aficionados to serious scholars across a wide range of disciplines.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn awarding Outstanding Academic Titles, the editors of \u003Cem\u003EChoice\u003C\/em\u003E apply several criteria to reviewed titles:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003Eoverall excellence in presentation and scholarship \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003Eimportance relative to other literature in the field \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003Edistinction as a first treatment of a given subject in book or electronic form \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003Eoriginality or uniqueness of treatment \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003Evalue to undergraduate students \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003Eimportance in building undergraduate library collections \u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the Outstanding Academic Title designation, Skyscraper has been reviewed in a number of other forums including popular and interdisciplinary publications such as \u003Cem\u003EPlanning Magazine\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003EPublishers Weekly\u003C\/em\u003E and \u003Cem\u003ECivil Engineering\u003C\/em\u003E: \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA must-read for anyone interested in high-rise construction in the U.S.\u201d \u2014Planning Magazine\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFlowers delves deeply into the larger meanings\u2013architectural, cultural, economic--of the structures in question [and]\u0026nbsp;sheds light on the motives and machinations of the people and organizations that made the structures possible.\u201d \u2014\u003Cem\u003ECivil Engineering\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cExamining the life and times of New York City\u0027s most iconic buildings,...Flowers reveals not only how the city\u0027s skyscrapers are inextricably tied to the city\u0027s economic booms and busts, planning, and day-to-day functioning but also how the skyscraper \u0027is a material expression\u0027 of social conditions and personal relationships, \u0027of the course chartered by capital\u0027 through urban\ntribes.\u201d \u2014\u003Cem\u003EPublishers Weekly\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EChoice \u003C\/em\u003Emagazine commends\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESkyscraper: The Politics and Power of Building New York City in the Twentieth Century\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;by assistant professor Benjamin Flowers\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27213","created_gmt":"2011-02-10 07:51:02","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:11","author":"Teri Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-02-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-02-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"64172":{"id":"64172","type":"image","title":"Skyscraper: The Politics and Power of Building New York City in the Twentieth Century","body":null,"created":"1449176720","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:05:20","changed":"1475894561","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:41","alt":"Skyscraper: The Politics and Power of Building New York City in the Twentieth Century","file":{"fid":"191958","name":"Skyscraper.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Skyscraper_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Skyscraper_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":498784,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Skyscraper_0.jpg?itok=lZE0Xy2-"}}},"media_ids":["64172"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"}],"categories":[{"id":"137","name":"Architecture"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"175","name":"Architecture"},{"id":"9792","name":"benjamin flowers"},{"id":"11864","name":"Benjy Flowers"},{"id":"167177","name":"School of Architecture"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:teri.nagel@coa.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ETeri Nagel\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech College of Architecture\u003Cbr \/\u003E404.385.2156\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}