Dana Cuff is an American architecture theorist, professor of Architecture and Urban Design and founding director of at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She received her Ph.D. in Architecture from University of California, Berkeley and her B.A., Psychology and Design from University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of books including Fast Forward Urbanism (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011) and The Provisional City (MIT Press, 2000).