Administration

Ellen Dunham-Jones
Director, Architecture Program & Associate Professor

Teaching Area

• Contemporary Architectural Theory and Urban Design

Education

• M. Arch, Princeton University, 1983, AIA Henry Adams Certificate of Merit.
• A.B., Architecture and Planning, Princeton University, 1980, summa cum laude

Teaching and AdministrativeExperience

• Georgia Institute of Technology, Associate Professor and Director, Architecture Program, 2001-present.
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Associate Professor, 1998-2000
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor, 1993-1997
• University of Virginia, Assistant Professor, 1986-1993

Memberships

• American Institute of Architects
• Congress for the New Urbanism
• Urban Land Institute
• Healthy Places Research Group

Academic and Professional Honors

• AIA Atlanta Citation of Appreciation, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Architect Selection Lecture Series, 2002
• CNU Citation for Service, 1997-2001 Co-Chair Education Task Force, 2001
• ACSA Citation for Service, Urbanism and Globalization Co-Chair, International Meeting, 2001
• Research grant, MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Fund, 1999.
• Artist’s Fellowship, “Escape to Create” Seaside Institute, Seaside, FL, 1998
• Best Paper, (1 of 2) NE Regional ACSA Conference, 1997
• Honorable Mention: Public Space in the New American City Competition, 1994;
• ACSA Citation for Service, Chair of Theory and Criticism Section, Annual Meeting, 1994;
• VA Society of the AIA Award for Excellence for Free Bridge, Charlottesville, 1994;
• AIA Education Honor Award for co-developed course in sustainability, 1992;
• Research grant, W. Alton Jones Foundation/Dean’s Forum Grant, 1990;
• Honorable Mention: WIMSAF Memorial Competition, 1989;
• Best Paper, (1 of 2) SE Regional ACSA Conference, 1987

Publications(Selected)

• “The Modernist Model”, The Windsor Forum on Design Education, Stephanie Bothwell et al eds., (Washington DC: New Urban Press, 2004)
• “Introduction”, CNU Charter Awards 2004, (Chicaco: Congress for the New Urbanism, 2004)
• “Smart Growth in Atlanta”, Harvard Design Magazine, Fall 2003-Winter 2004
• “Decon vs NU,” New Urban Post, “On Modernism”, issue V, September, 2002
• “Constructing a Culture of Urbanism”, CNU Council Report II, 2002
• Contributions to transcribed debates in The Seaside Debates, Todd Bressi editor, (New York; Rizzoli, 2002)
• “Capital Transformations of the Post-Industrial Landscape”, Oase 54/Winter 2001
• “Re: Generic City”, “Placing Identity,” Design Book Review, vol.42/43, 2000
• “New Urbanism as a Counter-Project to Post-Industrialism,” Places, summer 2000;
• “Seventy-Five Percent,” Harvard Design Magazine, Fall 2000
• “Regionalism”, Exploring (New) Urbanism, (CD-Rom, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1999
• “Questioning the Stand-Alone Building,” Dimensions of Sustainability, Andrew Scott, ed., (London: Routledge, E & FN Spoon) 1998
• “The Generation of ‘68 - Today; Tschumi, Koolhaas and the Institutionalization of Critique,” Proceedings of the 86 th ACSA Annual Meeting, 1998, Magasin for Modern Arkitektur, 1999;
• “High Speed Train Stations and Urban Design,” The High Speed Train Station in Valles: Six Urban Design Proposals, A joint venture by Universitat Politechnica de Catalunya and MIT, (Barcelona: Impresiones Generales S.A., 1997
• “Sprawl: Consequences and Alternatives”, Chapter 3, Thomas Barrie ed., Community Visions of Royal Oak: Rebuilding the American Small City, (Royal Oak, MI: Palimpsest Press) 1997
• “Stars, Swatches and Sweets; Thoughts on Post-Fordist Production and the Star System in Architecture,” Thresholds, vol.15, “Creativity in Consumer Culture,” Fall 1997;
• “Temporary Contracts: The Economy of the Post-Industrial Landscape,” Harvard Design Magazine, Fall/Winter, 1997;
• “Real Radicalism: Duany and Koolhaas,” Harvard Design Magazine, Winter/Spring, 1997;
• Carla Breeze, “Ellen Dunham-Jones and Jude LeBlanc,” New Modern, (Glen Cove, NY: PBC International, 1995
• “The Current Dilemma - Sprawl and its Consequences,” Sustainable Transportation, Proceedings of the Annual Northeast Sustainable Energy Association Convention, 1995;
• “Public Duty of Infrastructure,” Opinion Column, Architecture, volume 83, no. 8, 1994
• “Altered States: Architecture in the Post-Industrial World,” Plenary Session Paper, Proceedings of the 81 st Annual Meeting of the ACSA, 1993;
• “Using Masonry and Wood in Combination; The Goldstein Studio in Charlottesville,” co-authored with Jude LeBlanc, Lotus International, Volume 73, 1993;
• “Of Type and Thing” and “The Linear Farmhouse”, 18 Houses, Jude LeBlanc ed., (New York: Princeton Architectural Press) 1992

Selected Interviews

• Thomas Berglund, “Motesplats I Centrum”, Svenska Dagbladet 20 Oktober, 2002
• Tom Barry, “Retrofitting, Anyone?”, Georgia Trend, July 2001
• “In the Belly of the Beast”, Jane M. Sanders, Research Horizons, spring/summer 2003
• “Retrofitting Suburbs”, Sharon Collins, “Down to Earth”, CNN Headline News, September 18, 2003

Research

• Ongoing research and scholarship into contemporary development patterns and contemporary architectural theory, with particular attention to retrofitting suburbs and post-industrial landscapes.

Service

• Public lecturer on personal design work at numerous universities and on urban design and alternatives to sprawl at invited conferences throughout the world.
• Invited presenter, UN World Urban Forum III, Barcelona, 2004
• Jury Chair, CNU Charter Awards, 2004
• National Endowment for the Arts, Innovation Grants Advisory Panel, 2004
• Co-Chair, ACSA National Meeting, 2003
• Places , editorial board, 2003-present
• Chair, Education and Research Committee, Atlanta ULI Chapter, 2003-present
• Convener, Urban Design Symposium, Georgia Tech, 2003
• Atlanta AIA Urban Design Committee, 2002-present
• Professional Advisor, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Architect Selection Task Force, 2001-present;
• Atlanta chapter, US Green Building Council, 2001-2003;
• Atlanta Smart Growth Partnership, 2001-2003;
• Urban design charrettes: Somerville, MA, 1999, Detroit, MI, 2000, Gorham’s Bluff, AL, 2001;
• Resource Panelist, NEA Mayors Institute on City Design, 1999, 2002
• Chair, Congress for the New Urbanism Education Task Force 1997-2000;
• Thresholds , Advisory Board, 1997-present;
• AIA Education Committee, Boston Society of Architects, 1995-6
• NAAB visitation team member, 1995-99;
• ACSA councilor, paper reviewer, moderator, intermittently, 1988-present;
• Board member, Ellen Bayard Weedon Foundation, Charlottesville, VA, 1991-93;
• Pro bono design services for the Charlottesville Urban Design Committee, 1989-91;
• Design juror at numerous schools and for five national competitions;

Registration

• Registered Architect, New York

Professional Experience

• Ellen Dunham-Jones Architect, Charlottesville, VA, Somerville, MA, Atlanta GA, 1986-present;
• Dunham-Jones and LeBlanc Architects, Charlottesville, VA, Cambridge, MA, 1989-98;
• Ellen B. Dunham Architectural Designer, New York, NY, 1981-86;
• Eisenman / Robertson Architects, New York, NY, 1985-86;
• Hambrecht Terrell International, New York, NY, 1983-85;
• Johansen & Bhavani Architects, New York, NY, 1980-81.