Dana Cuff is an American architecture theorist, professor of architecture and urban design, and founding director of

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at the

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(UCLA). She received her Ph.D. in architecture from

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and her B.A., psychology and design from

University of California, Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California, United States. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of C ...

. She is the author of books including ''Fast Forward Urbanism'' (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011) and ''The Provisional City'' (MIT Press, 2000). She has been awarded the 2004 Lise Meitner Endowed Chair at

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in Sweden and was the 2004–2006 Fellow of the Ziman Center for Real Estate at UCLA. In 2019, she also received the Women in Architecture Activist of the Year award and an international prize for Researcher of the Year.

Publications

* ''Architecture: The Story of Practice'', MIT Press, 1991. * ''The Provisional City: Los Angeles Stories of Architecture and Urbanism'', MIT Press, 2000. * ''Fast Forward Urbanism'' with Roger Sherman, Princeton Architectural Press, 2011. *''Urban Humanities: New Practices for Reimagining the City'' with Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Todd Presner, Maite Zubiaurre, and Jonathan Jae-an Crisman, MIT Press, 2020. *''Architectures of Spatial Justice'', MIT Press, 2023.

References

External links

UCLA biographyCuff at cityLAB
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