Robert M. Craig Reihenfolge der Bücher

The architectural development of Georgia Tech began as a core of Victorian-era buildings sited around a campus green and Tech Tower. During the subsequent Beaux-Arts era, designers (who were also members of the architecture faculty) added traditionally styled buildings, with many of them in a pseudo-Jacobean collegiate redbrick style. Early Modernist Paul Heffernan led an architectural revolution in his academic village of functionalist buildings on campus--an aesthetic that inspired additional International Style campus buildings. Formalist, Brutalist, and Post-Modern architecture followed, and when Georgia Tech was selected as the Olympic Village for the 1996 Summer Olympics, new residence halls were added to the campus. Between 1994 and 2008, Georgia Tech president G. Wayne Clough stewarded over $1 billion in capital improvements at the school, notably engaging midtown Atlanta with the development of Technology Square. The landscape design by recent campus planners is especially noteworthy, featuring a purposeful designation of open spaces, accommodations for pedestrian perambulations, and public art. What might have developed into a prosaic assemblage of academic and research buildings has instead evolved into a remarkably competent assemblage of aesthetically pleasing architecture.

Robert M. Craig is a historian and author of several books in the field of architectural history. In recent years, however, his publications have reflected interests beyond his more academic writings on architecture. In Oyster Shell Alleys and other Remembrances of Times Past, Craig offers semi-autobiographical stories of summer life in Ocean City, Maryland, during the 1950s and 1960s. He references the music of the era and his various summer jobs from being a "newsie," to running a "beach boy" stand (renting umbrellas and surf mats), to serving as an ocean lifeguard and member of the Ocean City Beach Patrol, what he calls the "ideal" summer job. In these pages, you'll witness the coming of age of a home-town boy, hear the romantic music of Johnny Mathis, Connie Francis, and The Drifters, and revisit familiar adolescent experiences on the boardwalk, in the local movie house, or on the beach- activities you may have experienced and now remember with nostalgic joy. In the title story, Craig's early 1950's childhood encounters with the African-American service personnel in a back alley behind a boardwalk hotel are both moving and poignant, especially in today's culture of racial tension. His short stories are full of humor and are universal in recognition and appeal. While some are reminiscences of times now lost, each takes the reader to another place where memory again makes real our experiences of a now distant past.