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 constructing buildings ...

. 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. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a Normal school, teachers colle ...

and an M.A. Urban Planning, from UCLA. She served as the chair of the Texas Tech University College of Architecture. 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. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

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