As an urban planning graduate student at the Hamburg University of Technology, Egyptian architect Mohamed Atta researched what he saw as the intrusions of Western modernist architecture and Western tourists into traditional Arab cities.
Published October 13, 2010
The Society of American Travel Writers (SATW) Foundation has awarded Daniel Brook the Gold Prize in the Cultural Tourism Article category for "The Architect of 9/11." He wrote the piece for Slate.
Faculty members of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication, coordinated by Winston Cavin, judged the competition. There were 1,161 entries.