Ellen Dunham-Jones

Architect, Urban Designer, Professor & Author

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Atlanta, GA, USA
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Ellen Dunham-Jones Biography

Ellen Dunham-Jones is Coordinator of the MS in Urban Design. She teaches “Theories of Urban Design,” “Retrofitting Suburbia” and urban design studios.

A leading authority on suburban redevelopment, she and June Williamson wrote Retrofitting Suburbia; Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs. The book documents successful retrofits of vacant big box stores, dead malls, aging office parks, etc., into more sustainable places. The book received the PROSE award from the American Association of Publishers as best architecture/urban planning book of 2009, was featured in Time Magazine’s March 23, 2009 cover story, “10 ideas changing the world right now” and is the subject of her 2010 TED talk and 2012 TED-NPR Radio Hour interview. She appeared in the 2011 documentary Urbanized, the 2012 PBS series “Designing Healthy Communities” and was recently interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition, in anticipation of the National Bike Summit, and for AIA Atlanta’s Shoptalk series. She continues to build her database of suburban retrofits, lecture widely, and is working on a follow-up book on successful strategies for retrofitting suburbs to meet 21st century challenges.

Ellen’s published over 60 additional papers linking contemporary architectural theory and practice. “Irrational Exuberance: Rem Koolhaas in the Nineties” in the 2013 book Architecture and Capitalism was named one of the ten most popular essays of 2013 by The Design Observer Group.

She has served in several national leadership roles including Board Chair of the Congress for the New Urbanism, AIA Design and Health Leadership Group, the Hanley Wood Sustainability Council, and the advisory boards of the Journal of Urbanism, Places, (in)Forma, the Livability Index, and is chair of the board of Commons Planning. In 2015 she was honored to be inducted in the inaugural classes of both the Brooks Byers Institute of Sustainable Systems Fellows at Georgia Tech and the CNU Fellows.

She received undergraduate and graduate degrees in architecture from Princeton University and taught at UVA and MIT before joining Georgia Tech’s faculty to serve as Director of the Architecture Program from 2001-2009.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 12/20/2023.

Ellen Dunham-Jones Videos

  • The Weitzman School of Design Presents Ellen Dunham-Jones
    The Department of City and Regional Planning welcomed Ellen Dunham-Jones, professor of architecture and urban design at Georgia Tech.
  • Ellen Dunham-Jones Lecture University of Tennessee
    Lecture was hosted by the University of Tennessee College of Architecture and Design on Wednesday, April 5, 2017.
  • 2019-Ellen Dunham Jones - Retrofitting Suburbia
    Excerpt from the 2019 Georgia Tech Sustainability Showcase.

Ellen Dunham-Jones Books

  • Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs
    Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs

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