Dora Epstein-Jones is an educator, historian and theorist of

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and construction, constructi ...

. Epstein-Jones has a Ph.D., in Architectural History, Theory and Criticism from the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...

and an M.A. Urban Planning, from UCLA. She served as the chair of the

Texas Tech University College of Architecture Texas ( , ; or ) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and has an international border wit ...

. Her work explores the boundaries of architecture's discipline, questions of practice, gender and criticality. Epstein-Jones has taught at Sci-Arc,

University of California Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley ...

and Texas Tech University.

Publications

Journal articles

* "The Mouth and The Gullet" * "The Pas de Chat: A Modern Tale of Discipline and Reward" * "The Nonsignificance of Columns"

Dissertation

* "Architecture on the Move: Modernism and Mobility in the Postwar"

Conference Papers

* "Drawing the Line, or 'Surrender, surrender, but don’t give yourself away...'" * "Fast, Cheap and In Control" * "Extreme Makeover; or, How the F-word Shaped Contemporary Architecture"

References

Living people University of California, Los Angeles alumni Texas Tech University faculty UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design faculty Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-architect-stub