James S. Russell

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Housing design, Housing Policy

 “Blighted Bronx Revives With Roof Gardens, Solar Panels” On Via Verde, a model mixed-income housing project by Dattner Architects and Grimshaw, Bloomberg, 3/22/2012

“Foreclosed Homeowners Inspire Museum’s Architects Show” on Museum of Modern Art’s “Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream” exhibition, Bloomberg, 3/12/2012

“Schermerhorn Mixes Homeless, $2 Million Townhouses, Ballerinas” on innovative development that combines market rate townhouses, with a housing project that mixes formerly homeless people with working poor, Bloomberg, 8/31/2009

“Post-Crash U.S. Home Deflates, Adds Vines, Cisterns” on the forces that will drive home size smaller, and home design greener, Bloomberg, 11/11/2008

“As Godzilla Condos Loom Over West Side, Zoning Arrives Too Late” on Ariel East and West towers in Manhattan, by Cetra/Ruddy and Cook + Fox, Bloomberg, 3/29/2007

“Gulf Coast Dream House: What Happened to Shutters and Porches?” on traditional means of designing with nature on hurricane-swept coast, Bloomberg, 9/23/2005

“ ‘Un-Private House’: Not a Cocoon” review of exhibition on house-design innovation at Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia Inquirer, 7/7/1999

“…Designing the Urban Interface Loft…meant do-it-yourself” on a residential loft renovation, Architectural Record, 9/1997

“The Place of ‘Public’ in Housing” Assesses changing attitudes toward public housing and what designers can contribute in hostile political environment, Architectural Record, 1/1994

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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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