Rob Fisch
Principal / Justice and Civic Leader, DLR Group, United States
Rob Fisch is a Principal and Justice Sector Leader at DLR Group, Architects, Planners and Engineers. He leads planning and design for some of the firm’s major corrections projects. Over the past 33 years, Mr. Fisch has served as a consultant to judges, prosecutors, legislators and corrections administrators, as well as other justice system stakeholders. He is widely recognized for his analytical and cognitive ability to develop a sound foundation for consensus-based needs assessments, master plans and facility solutions. His experience encompasses courts, corrections and juvenile justice. His most recent adult corrections projects are a “Re-Imagining” of a large urban jail in Pittsburgh, and a comprehensive plan to close New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex to be replaced with four new urban jails across the City. In the juvenile justice realm, he is currently leading design efforts for three juvenile detention campuses in New Jersey and planning for a new model for NYC’s Horizon juvenile detention complex. He also has extensive courthouse planning and design experience.
Mr. Fisch has a BA in Environmental Design from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is a Certified Planner by the American Planning Association and is also LEED accredited from the U.S. Green Buildings Council. He has lectured extensively at planning, design and security conferences in the US and abroad, and has been cited in various printed and electronic media on the topic of justice facility planning and design.