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. In addition to Skyscraper, Flowers is conducting a major research project involving the intersection of race and space in the discipline and practice of architecture. His research and teaching on this topic explores 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.