Ellen Dunham-Jones is a registered architect and Associate Professor in the Architecture Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. An advocate for alternatives to urban sprawl, she lectures widely on sustainable urban design and theory. As co-author with June Williamson of Retrofitting Suburbia; Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs (Wiley & Sons, 2008) her work has received media attention in the New York Times, CNN-Money.com, Newsweek.com, and Metropolismag.com. She has published over 50 articles including pieces in Harvard Design Magazine, Places, Design Book Review, and Lotus International; as well as chapters in The Green Braid, Writing Urbanism, Reconstructing Atlanta, New Urbanism and Beyond, Sprawl and Suburbia, What People Want, Worlds Away, The Windsor Forum on Design Education, and Dimensions of Sustainability. 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 and is one of the core faculty members involved in the M.S.Arch with a concentration in Urban Design. She serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Urbanism and on several local and national boards: the Congress for the New Urbanism, Phoenix Urban Research Lab, ULI-Atlanta, and CNU-Atlanta.

She was the team leader for “LWARPS-we can reverse sprawl”, winning entry of the Infiniti Award for Extraordinary Design of the Atlanta, 2008 City of the Future design competition sponsored by the History Channel. 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). She was the Ax:son Johnson Foundation Visiting Professor at Lund University, Sweden for 2006-7.