COVID-19 media coverage
The articles below provide media coverage regarding how the architecture community is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
May 26, 2020
Construction Dive - The Dotted Line: How will clients approach contracts post-pandemic?
Architect Magazine - Architecture in Unusual Times
May 22, 2020
Inhabitat - Architects design COVID-19 mobile testing labs for underserved communities
Forbes - As Cities Re-Open, These Visionary Architects Will Help Improve Supply Chains And Disease Prevention
May 23, 2020
Wall Street Journal - How Architects Are Already Planning the Future of Offices
Minneapolis Star Tribune - LEED, other building certification systems, look to adjust to COVID-19 era
May 19, 2020
Commercial Property Executive - When We Return to the Office, It Should Look Like This
Hotel Business - Hospitality After COVID-19: An Architect’s Perspective
May 18, 2020
Building Design + Construction - Infection control in office buildings: Preparing for re-occupancy amid the coronavirus
CNBC - How post-pandemic office spaces could change corporate culture
May 15, 2020
Forbes - Five Architects Sketch Views On Post-Pandemic Residential Design
Columbus Dispatch - Coronavirus shutdown offers opportunity to rethink how we live
May 14, 2020
Forbes - Ways Your Organization Can Help Hospitals During The Pandemic
May 13, 2020
Dezeen - AIA outlines how people can safely return to offices post pandemic
NPR - How designers are remaking spaces for our new socially distanced lives
May 12, 2020
PBS Newshour - How the pandemic is reshaping hospital architecture and design
New York Real Estate Journal - Workplace reimagined: COVID-19 to reshape the modern office experience
May 5, 2020
New York Times - Cooped Up Indoors? There’s a Reason You Don’t Feel Well
Architectural Digest - One Firm's Response to COVID-19 Is to Create a Mazelike Park
May 4, 2020
The Guardian (UK) - Sensor taps and no door handles: Covid-19 shows it's time to rethink public toilets
Commercial Observer - Converting Columbia’s “Bubble” To a Coronavirus Field Hospital
May 1, 2020
Bisnow Los Angeles - Billings Are Down, But Architects Are Planning Ahead Of The Pandemic
Commercial Property Executive - Pandemic Unlikely to End Construction in 2020
April 30, 2020
Dwell - Architects and Designers Weigh In on the Future of Work
ArchDaily - The Importance of Antibacterial Surfaces in Healthcare Architecture
April 29, 2020
Fast Company – Hospitals are bringing nature into stressful COVID-19 ICUs
NPR – Cities That Heal: How The Coronavirus Pandemic Could Change Urban Design
April 27, 2020
CNBC - Sports arenas could require ‘necessary renovations’ for social distancing, architect firm says
Architectural Record - Phil Bernstein Shares Ten Thoughts on the Future of Practice
April 24, 2020
Reuters - Buildings Closed by Coronavirus Face Another Risk: Legionnaires’ Disease
NPR - 9 Ways Schools Will Look Different When (And If) They Reopen
April 23, 2020
Architecture & Design (AU) - Are you lonesome, tonight? – how some architects are tackling loneliness
Manufacturing Business Technology - Buildings Have Their Own Microbiomes
April 22, 2020
MLive - Designing Michigan coronavirus field hospital was like ‘combat engineering,’ architect says
Los Angeles Times - Past pandemics changed the design of cities. Six ways COVID-19 could do the same
April 21, 2020
Redshift - 5 Insights as Architects Lead Hospital Conversion for COVID-19 Response
Fast Company - How the COVID-19 pandemic could reshape hospitals
April 20, 2020
Fast Company - How architects can stop COVID-19 from spreading indoors
Commercial Observer - Designing Offices, Restaurants and Grocery Stores in the Age of Coronavirus
April 17, 2020
Fast Company - Could this market design be the future of social-distance food shopping?
Dallas Morning News - How will your workplace adapt to social distancing in a post-pandemic world?
April 16, 2020
Forbes - Architects Forecast Change For Design In Wake Of COVID-19
San Antonio Express-News - How will coronavirus change offices? Think new seating, more cleaning and hands-free tech
April 15, 2020
Architectural Record – Architects, Engineers, and Physicians Develop COVID-19 Patient Isolation Hood
NPR - Designing at a distance: Coronavirus is changing how Philly architects work
April 14, 2020
Fox San Antonio - San Antonio councilman, Roberto Trevino, AIA, works to build ventilators
Construction Dive - After COVID-19, there will be a new normal for construction safety
April 13, 2020
Architect Magazine - How to Get Back to Normal, Using Design to Fight the Pandemic, More Mask Making, and More
Fast Company - Architects develop a COVID-19 screening booth for no-touch testing
April 10, 2020
Bloomberg - Sneeze Guards and Temperature Checks Are the New Normal for U.S. Retail
ArchDaily - AIA’s COVID-19 Task Force Creates Design Guide to Retrofit Buildings for Alternative Care
April 9, 2020
Fast Company - How to design for the dead and dying
Construction Dive - As coronavirus necessitates technology usage, investors seem keen on Contech
April 8, 2020
Los Angeles Times - USC leads an army of architects making masks for medical workers using 3-D printers
The Guardian (UK) - How to build a hospital in nine days: emergency architecture in a pandemic
April 6, 2020
Metropolis - 5 Ways Architects and Designers are Responding to COVID-19
Architectural Record - Newly ormed AIA Task Force Launches Tool to Collect Coronavirus Alternative Care Site Designs
Architectural Record Exclusive - New York City Halts Public Design Work
Architect Magazine - These Architects Are Addressing COVID-19 Health Care Infrastructure Capacity
Architect Magazine - Here's How Architects, Designers, and Makers Can Help and Volunteer in the Coronavirus Era
Architect Magazine - The Need for More Testing and Mobilization, Design Tips for Infection Control, State-by-State Construction Mandates, and More
Construction Business News - CannonDesign creates a walk-in testing booth for COVID-19 in the United States
The Province - Dreessen: Let's use what COVID-19 has taught us to redesign our city
National Law Review - COVID-19’s Impact on Construction: Is There a Remedy? — Time Extension, Force Majeure, or More?
Archinect - Introducing Archinect’s COVID-19 Guide for Architects & Designers
Archinect - LA Mayor calls on architects to expand 3D-printed PPE efforts
April 3, 2020
Architectural Digest - What to Do If Your Project Is Put On Hold or Canceled
Architizer - How the Architecture and Design Community Is Helping Combat COVID-19
April 1, 2020
CBS Los Angeles - USC Architecture Program Making 3D Masks For Medical Workers Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
March 25, 2020
Architectural Record - Planned for a Pandemic: Rush University Medical Center Tower by Perkins and Will
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