Curriculum Vitae
James S. Russell, AIA
158 West 88th Street, 4F, New York, New York 10024
212/799-4254 (phone, fax); jamesrussell@earthlink.net (e-mail)
www.jsrussellwriter.com

FREELANCE WRITER
Experience New York City, 1998-date (part time)

Write on architecture, design, and related topics for professional and consumer publications including the Wall Street Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, Vanity Fair, Details, Martha Stewart Living, the New York Times, the Harvard Design Magazine, BusinessWeek and I.D., among others. From 2003-2004, produced weblog (“blog”) “Sticks & Stones” for ArtsJournal.com

BLOOMBERG
New York City (2004-date, part time)

ARCHITECTURE CRITIC
Appointed the company’s first architecture critic. Write criticism and report stories on breaking stories and significant architectural events for wire service that is disseminated in print and electronically worldwide. Regularly appear on Bloomberg Radio.

ARCHITECTURAL RECORD
New York City, 1988-date

EDITOR AT LARGE (part-time, 1998-date)
Cover important design and feature stories and scout project-coverage ideas.

MANAGING SENIOR EDITOR (1993-1998)
Only writer at publication who proposed assigned, edited and wrote stories for all three primary coverage areas of magazine: design, professional practice, and architectural technology. Refocused coverage of architectural technology, practice, computers, and products in new section. Managed work of up to four writers per month.

SENIOR EDITOR (1990-1993)
Wrote and edited features, criticism, and building types studies. Assigned, wrote, and edited stories for Building Technology section of magazine.

ASSISTANT EDITOR (1988-1990)
Assigned, wrote, and edited stories for Design News and Design Awards/Competitions section of magazine. Assigned, wrote, and edited point-of-view essays and book reviews for Observations section. Wrote occasional features on building projects.

Other duties
Conceived publication’s World Wide Web site (mid-1997); Proposed CD-ROM spinoff publications, other on-line initiatives. Editorial “champion” for conversion from mainframe-based publishing system (Atex) to desktop publishing system (Quark).

OPPOSITIONS JOURNAL
New York City, 1977-1980 (part-time)

ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR
Duties included editorial and photo research, copy editing, and correspondence.

After Suburbia: A Place to Live in the 21st Century (book in progress on emerging urban growth trends); editor, The Mayors’ Institute: Excellence in Design, (for the Mayors’ Institute for City Design and the National Endowment for the Arts, Princeton Architectural Press, Fall 2002); Editor and writer, Design for Security, guidance on crime prevention through design for the Art Commission of the City of New York (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. (December 2000 to August 2001). Introductory texts for four Architecture in Detail anthologies covering work ranging from Mies van der Rohe to James Stirling and Michael Wilford (Phaidon Press, Spring 1999); entries in Icons of 20th Century Architecture (Prestel, 1998); Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year (1998, 1999); chapter in Modernism at Mid-Century: The Architecture of the U. S. Air Force Academy (University of Chicago Press, 1994)

Frequently invited as speaker, panelist, competition juror. Moderated Seattle Chapter, AIA, design awards including symposium on architect’s role in city’s growth (2000); produced and moderated panel at American Institute of Architects national convention on architects and the urban sprawl debate (2000). “Can Architecture Survive Consumer Culture?” with Kevin Kelley, Temple Hoyne Buell Center lecture, Columbia University (2001); moderated “Design For Security,” a panel on security design and architecture, for Art Commission of New York and Design Trust for Public Space (2002); committee member and juror, James Beard Foundation Restaurant Design Awards (2000-2002).

ARCHITECT
BOHLIN POWELL LARKIN CYWINSKI
Philadelphia, 1983-1987

Architectural design and documentation: 33,000-sq.-ft. kitchen and dining facility for major medical center; 7,800-sq.-ft. renovation of university lecture halls in historic building. Project management: 46,000-sq. ft. office building and dining facility; 10,800-sq.-ft. skilled-care nursing facility; 7,800-sq.-ft. banking floor renovation; $1.3-million renovation to zoo birdhouse in historic landmark.

PROPOSITION: ARCHITECTURE
New York City, 1982-1983

Contract documents, bidding and construction services for penthouse addition; design, contract documents, code compliance, and client liaison for conversion of more than 300,000 sq. ft. of industrial loft space to residential use.

JAMES STEWART POLSHEK AND PARTNERS
New York City, 1982

Survey and programming for renovation and addition to midtown landmark building; schematic design for mixed-use tower.

COOPER ECKSTUT ASSOCIATES
New York City, 1980-1982

Produced comparison of proposed and existing midtown NewYork City zoning as it affected potential office tower; assisted associate architect-in-charge in preparation of schematic design for 40-story residential tower. Part of Battery Park City and 42nd Street Redevelopment teams, each multi-billion-dollar urban design/redevelopment schemes

Adjunct assistant professor, Columbia University in urban design and architecture (1998-date); lecturer, Pennsylvania State University, Ogontz (1986, 1987); taught architectural registration exam preparation seminars (Philadelphia AIA, 1985, 1986); Teaching Assistant, second year studio, Columbia University (1979-80); Guest critic: Columbia University, Princeton University, Univeristy of Pennsylvania, Yale University, Rhode Island School of Design, Drexel University, Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute

Columbia University: Masters of Architecture, 1980. University of Washington: Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design, 1976. Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, 1971-1973.

Fellow, Design Trust for Public Space. Program advisor for Architectural League, New York City, and Van Alen Institute, New York City. Member, Municipal Arts Society

Wrote major stories in two issues and produced a third theme issue that garnered National Magazine Award for General Excellence for Architectural Record in 2003. Other work for Architectural Record helped that magazine earn Jesse Neal Awards and two McGraw-Hill Corporate Achievement Awards. Stories for Grid have won that publication two “Ozzie” awards.

Architect: New York. Member, American Institute of Architects

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