Articles by James S. Russell, FAIA Emeritus

The quest for equity in the profession has resurrected a recurring debate over the elaborate, years-long licensure process.

The need to socially distance within locations designed to create intimacy has made reopening performance spaces a distant dream.

Operators of transportation infrastructure are taking steps to keep workers and travelers safe as the economy begins to reopen.

With enormous pressure to reopen businesses closed by the COVID-19 pandemic, firms consider how best to help their clients.

Working with Ariadne Labs and Mount Sinai Hospital, the architecture firm has released a free online guide for rapidly redesigning hospitals to protect health-care workers during the pandemic.

Many in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry have turned their focus to the rapid delivery of health-care facilities, to treat the ill and attempt to stave off the pandemic’s spread.

Though most construction has ceased in response to COVID-19, architects hired for city projects were stunned to get orders last week to stop all ongoing design work.

With cases COVID-19 cases increasing by the thousands every day in New York City, healthcare infrastructure is breaking under the strain.

Projects relying on a stringent standard imported from Europe grow in both complexity and scale.

Designed for medical emergencies and rapid bed expansion, the Robert R. McCormick Foundation Center for Advanced Emergency Response in Chicago offers lessons to hospitals facing the coronavirus pandemic.