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Dana Cuff

Dana Cuff | Emelie Asplund

Dana Cuff is UCLA professor of architecture and urban design and director of the award-winning design research center cityLAB.

Since receiving her Ph.D. from Berkeley, Cuff has published and lectured widely about spatial justice, the architectural profession and affordable housing. She is a recent recipient of prestigious awards for her leadership as an activist (2019, Architectural Record), educator (2020, AIA Los Angeles) and researcher (2020, Architectural Research Centers Consortium).

Dana Cuff | Emelie Asplund
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Backyard Bihome Exterior (2015) | cityLAB UCLA and Kevin Daly Architects, Photography by Nico Marques/Photekt
If architects and designers want to be part of the solution, we must sign on to painful work that marks a real rupture with the past.
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