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Professor Alan Balfour

   Dean of the College of Architecture Georgia Tech

The Shape of the City in an Age of Branded Reality

    

In 2000, Alan Balfour received the Topaz Medal, the highest recognition given in North America to an educator in architecture.

In 2002 he completed books on three world cities; Shanghai was published in 2002 and New York in 2001. The first in the series Berlin documents the transformation of Berlin before and after t he collapse of  t he 'W all.  This and an earlier book Berlin: The Politics of Order: 1737-1989 (Rizzoli 1990), received AIA International Book Awards. 

He has just completed Solomon's Temple, a study of the constructive and destructive power of faith played out in the myths and realities of one place, Temple Mount in Jerusalem