James S. Russell

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Books

The Agile City: Building Well Being and Wealth in an Era of Climate Change, Island Press, 2011

Architecture to Landscape: Salvatore LaRosa and Ronald Bentley monograph, Twice Arts Foundation, 2005

Editor and bylined writer, The Mayors’ Institute: Excellence in Design: for the Mayors’ Institute for City Design and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Architectural Foundation, Princeton Architectural Press, 2002

“Form Follows Fad: The Troubled Love Affair of Architectural Style and Management Ideal,” essay in On the Job: Design and the American Office, catalog for exhibit at the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., 2000

“The Power of the Pragmatic,” introduction to monograph, Studios Architecture, L’Arca Edizioni, 2000

Introductions to Phaidon “Architecture Threes” anthologies, Phaidon Press, 1999

Twentieth Century Museums I (New National Gallery/Mies van der Rohe; Kimbell Art Museum/Louis I. Kahn; Museum for Kunsthandwerk/Richard Meier)

Twentieth Century Museums II (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum/Pei Cobb Freed; Clore Gallery/James Stirling, Michael Wilford; Museum of Modern Art, Gunma/Arata Isozaki)

Places of Worship (St. Paul’s Cathedral/Christopher Wren; Church of the Sacred Heart/ Joze Plecnik; Church on the Water, Church of the Light/Tadao Ando), 1999

Entries in Icons of 20th Century Architecture: Prestel, 1998

“Learning from Industry,” in Modernism at Mid-Century: The Architecture of the U. S. Air Force Academy, University of Chicago Press, 1994)

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About James Russell

James S. Russell is an architecture critic, journalist, teacher and consultant. He's the author of the book, The Agile City, and has written for publications like Architectural Record, Bloomberg News, NY Times and more. Continue reading

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