Dora Epstein Jones PhD
Chair
- Architecture Department
Dora Epstein Jones, PhD, is a theorist and practitioner within architectural culture. Her work mainly focuses on the discipline of architecture and includes interrogations of the discipline’s boundaries and operations through examinations of tectonics, practice, and pedagogy. Her work is uniquely tuned to matters of design, as a former Principal with Jones, Partners: Architecture, and as a collaborative writer.
Epstein Jones has been published in many compilations related to design including Possible Mediums, The Building, Speculative Coolness, and A Purple Architecture, as well as her doctoral work focused on the history of prefabrication. Her latest works have centered around collections for Morphosis and Stray Dog Cafe, notably Morphosis 6 and the Morphosis Model Monograph. Epstein Jones holds a Ph.D. in Architectural History, Theory and Criticism, and an M.A. in Urban Planning from UCLA.
Epstein Jones has served as the Coordinator of both General Studies and History & Theory at SCI- Arc, the Executive Director of the A+D Architecture and Design Museum, and the Chair of Architecture at Texas Tech University. She holds awards as an ACLS/Luce scholar, a Getty scholar, a Siff fellow, a Regents fellow, and an AIA scholar.