DORA EPSTEIN JONES is a historian, theorist and professor of cultural studies and architectural culture at SCI-Arc and a long-time collaborator with Jones, Partners: Architecture. Dr Epstein Jones’ work focuses on the discipline of architecture, and includes interrogations on the discipline’s boundaries and operations through examinations of tectonics, practice and pedagogy, as well as (generally external) concerns such as gender, sex, mobility and criticality. Dr Epstein Jones' lecture 'Same Old, Same Old' focuses on the history of prefabrication tectonics. The contemporary companion to the historical work on Gropius and the tectonic limits of single-module or single-system fabrication; just because the forms are new, does not mean the old problems vanish.

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Dora Epstein Jones

Dora Epstein Jones, Ph.D, is a theorist and teacher of architecture culture, at SCI-Arc. She has been a long-time collaborator with Jones, Partners: Architecture. She sat down with with inter·punct in July 2013 to talk about prefab and modularity. Read the interview on the inter·punct website.

inter·punct is a journal for architecture founded by students at CMU and supported by the Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture.