Ellen Dunham-Jones
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Ellen Dunham-Jones is a registered architect, Associate Professor and Director of the Architecture Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She lectures widely and is the author of over 35 articles and several chapters in books. Her research links contemporary architectural theory and post-industrial development. An advocate for alternatives to sprawl, her current focus is on retrofitting suburbs. She has received grants from the Graham and W. Alton Jones Foundations, Seaside Institute, and the MIT HASS Fund. In 2004, she made the DesignIntelligence Honor Roll as one of 30 leaders who bridge practice and education.

She co-teaches a lecture course in contemporary architectural theory, serves on the advisory boards for the journals Thresholds and Places, the AIA Atlanta Urban Design Committee, chairs the Atlanta ULI Education committee, and was an advisor to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's Architect Selection Task Force. She was Chair of the Education Task Force of the Congress of the New Urbanism from 1998-2001, served a five-year term on NAAB accreditation visits and co-chaired the 2003 ACSA National Meeting.

As a former partner in Dunham-Jones and LeBlanc Architects, she received an AIA award for the design of Free Bridge and the Rivanna Riverfront and two honorable mentions in national design competitions.

Dunham-Jones received her AB in architecture and planning, summa cum laude (1980) and M.Arch (1983) with the AIA Henry Adams Certificate of Merit from Princeton University. Before joining Georgia Tech in 2001, she worked as an architect in New York City and taught as an Assistant Professor at UVA(1986-1993) and as Associate Professor at MIT (1993-2000).