Wes Janz, PhD, RA

                                                Department of Architecture

Ball State University                  5335 N. Washington Boulevard

                                                Muncie, IN  47306  USA           Indianapolis, IN  46220  USA

                                                wjanz@bsu.edu

 

 

General Information              Work History

                                                ACADEMIC

                                                2002-present     Ball State University

Associate Professor, Architecture

 

1999-present           Director

Master of Architecture II (post-professional)

 

1995-2002         Ball State University

Assistant Professor, Architecture

 

1992-93            University of Michigan

TA (four semesters), Department of Architecture

 

                                                1986                 University of Minnesota

Studio Critic, Department of Architecture

 

1983, 1987        Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Instructor, Design Department

 

PROFESSIONAL

1983-present     Licensed architect, Minnesota

 

1997-present     26262625 Architects

UIA ‘Precarious Habitat” Competition Entry (2004)

Installations (2003)

Universidad de Buenos Aires

Universitaria de la Arquitectura en Rosario

Buenos Aires and Rosario, Argentina

Bus Shelter, Bloomington, IN (unbuilt, 2002)

Arbor, Indianapolis, IN (2001+)

Bar, Muncie, IN (2000)               

 

                                                1983-91            Janz/Abrahamson, Inc.

Consultants to American Express, Anheuser-Busch, Apple, General Mills, Procter & Gamble, 3M, and others.

 

                                                1979-83            Seitz Yamamoto Moss, Inc.

HGA Architects and Engineers, Inc.

InterDesign, Inc.

Robert M. Beckley

Architect, Builder

  

                                                Higher Education

1991-95            University of Michigan

1995          Doctor of Philosophy (Architecture)

 

Dissertation: “Building Cultures by Designing Buildings: The Corporate Elite, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and Eero Saarinen”

 

1971-78            University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

1978          Master of Architecture

1976          BS in Architectural Studies

 

 

Honors and Awards

ACADEMIC

1994-95              University of Michigan

Institute for the Humanities Graduate Fellowship

 

1993                 University of Michigan

Advanced to Doctoral Candidacy with distinction

 

1993                                  Center for the Study of Architecture and Built Form

Association International Symposium

Best Student Paper Award

 

                                                1978                 Downtown Elgin Design Competition

Honorable Mention

 

                                                1977                 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Eschweiller Honors Design Studio

 

                                                PROFESSIONAL

                                                2003                 AIA-Indianapolis Award of Citation

Arbor, 26262625 Architects

 

2000                 AIA-Indiana Honor Award – Interiors

Bar, 26262625 Architects

 

1990              University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Graduate School, Distinguished Alumni Profile

 

1989                 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Young Alumni Award

 

1986                                  Progressive Architecture magazine

Young Architects Issue Profile

 

1984                 Minnesota Society American Institute of Architects

Honors Recipient

 

 

1983                 Society of Typographic Arts

                        Minnesota Graphic Designers Association

Honors Recipient

 

COMMUNITY

1991                 Business and Economic Education Foundation

Volunteer Service Award

 

 

Scholarly and                          Sponsored Research

Creative Activities                 2003                 Ball State University

                                                                        Center for International Programs

                                                                        Visiting and Exchange Scholar Fund                   $2,260

                                                                                                                (with Dr. Nihal Perera) money to bring

                                                                                                                Sri Lankan architect/educator Vijitha

                                                                                                                Basnayaka to Ball State

 

2003                 Ball State University

                        Center for International Programs

                        International Faculty Development Fund             $1,400

Three-weeks with CapAsia III including

design + construction of wood and mud

 pavilions at University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

 

1999-2001         Ball State University

                        Office of Academic Research and Sponsored Projects

Theaters of Power: Architectural and Educational Settings                                               $14,400

Conversion of dissertation into book manuscript.

 

1999                                  Ball State University

Instructional Technology Grant

Making Digital Movies, Linking Architecture Students, Practitioners, and the World         $1,000

Money to purchase digital movie camera

 

                                                1998                 Ball State University

Department of Architecture Core Grant

Lincoln Centered: Bringing my (First) Book into Focus                                                     $600

 

1996                 Ball State University

                        Department of Architecture Core Grant

From COP Shops to Purse Strings: Presenting Student Work to the Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation in Washington, DC               $1,000

 

1994                                  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

School of Architecture and Urban Planning

Alumni Fellowship                                       $3,000 

 

1993-94                         University of Michigan

Center for Research on Learning and Teaching

(with Professor Robert Johnson)

Applications of Case Study Method to Teaching Professional Practice                              $4,000

 

1989-98                         Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts

Case Studies of the Design Methodology of Two Eero Saarinen Projects: Dulles & Deere     $5,000

 

 

Book Chapter

Janz, WR. ‘Studious Questions, Studio Responses’ invited chapter, Culture-Meaning-Architecture: Critical Reflections on the Work of Amos Rapoport (Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2000), 151-74. 

[Contributors include Irwin Altman, Robert Beckley, Francis Duffy, Linda Groat, Jon Lang, Setha Low, and Paul Oliver]

 

 

Articles (Peer Reviewed)

Janz, WR (1997).  Theaters of Power: Architectural and Cultural Productions.  Journal of Architectural Education 50(4), pp. 230-43.

 

Janz, WR (1992).  The Extension of Identity into House Fronts: Two Milwaukee, Wisconsin Neighborhoods.  Journal of Architectural and Planning Research 9(1), pp. 48-63.

 

Janz, WR and RM Beckley (1983).  Multivalence, Context, and Synthesis in Urban Design.  Journal of Architectural Education 36(3), pp. 7-13.

 

 

Proceedings (Peer Reviewed)

Tandogan, E, T Guenes, and WR Janz (2003).  Potentiating Waste: Timber Pallets as an Alternative Building System.  Workshop, Proceedings of the Greening of the Campus V conference, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.

 

Janz, WR (2002).  Future Work: Will It Be Big Enough?  Proceedings of the ACSA International Meeting.  Istanbul, Turkey

 

Janz, WR (1997).  Building Cultures by Designing Buildings: Corporatism, Eero Saarinen, and the Vivian Beaumont Repertory Theater.  Proceedings of the ACSA Annual Meeting. 

 

Janz, WR (1996).  Cover Stories: The Utility of Architectural Heroes to the Corporate Elite.  Proceedings of the ACSA Annual Meeting.

 

Janz, WR (1994).  Transactions Among Architects, Clients, and Projects: The Common/Contested Landscapes of Eero Saarinen and Associates.  Proceedings of the ACSA West Regional Conference.

 

Janz, WR (1992).  A Critical Comparison of the Design Treatises of Etienne-Louis Boullee and Eero Saarinen.  Dimensions.  University of Michigan.

 

 

Other Selected Publications

Janz, WR (2004).  Ambalam: Wayside Shelters, Frequent Paths.  Proceedings of the ACSA Central Regional Conference.

 

Janz, WR (1995).  Building Nations by Designing Buildings.  Working Paper Series.  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

 

Janz, WR (1992).  A Life With-In and With-Out Architecture.  Portico.  University of Michigan.

 

Janz, WR (1989).  Beyond the Garden.  AIAS-International Masonry Institute Competition Program Design Challenge.

 

Janz, WR (1989).  A Generalist Architecture – A Hypenated Architect.  AIA Architectural Education Initiatives: Premiated Essays from the 1988-1989 Walter Wagner Education Program Forum Papers.

 

Janz, WR (1987).  The Milwaukee Connection.  Architecture Minnesota.

 

Janz, WR (1985).  A Building is Born: A Study in the Process of Design.  Architecture Minnesota.

 

 

Papers Given at Professional Meetings

Papers subsequently published are listed above.

Janz, WR (2003).  The Living World: On Not Being Here A Long Time.  ACSA International Meeting, Helsinki, Finland.

 

Guenes, T and WR Janz (2003).  Temporary & Mobile: Turning Points for Architectural Practice and Education.  Presented by Guenes.  ACSA International Meeting, Helsinki, Finland.

 

Janz, WR (1999).  Studious Questions, Studio Responses presented as part of ‘Reflections on Rapoport’ plenary session, Environmental Design Research Association national conference.

 

Janz, WR (1999).  The Smart Sponsor: William Hewitt builds the Deere & Company Administrative Center.  Society of Architectural Historians annual meeting.

 

Janz, W, P Irvine, and J Campbell (1998).  Form and Function: Architecture & Nursing Students Examine Long-Term Care Facilities.  Poster Session: Kirkpatrick Conference on Aging.

 

Janz, WR (1998).  Popularizing Culture: David Ogilvy Advertises Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.  International Conferences of the Popular Culture and American Culture Associations.

 

Janz, W, P Irvine, and J Campbell (1998).  Promoting Gerontology through Interdisciplinary Collaboration of Nursing and Architecture.  Presented by Irvine.  Annual Leadership Conference of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education.

 

Janz, W, P Irvine, and J Campbell (1997).  Form and Function: Architecture & Nursing Students Examine Long-Term Care Facilities.  Presented by Irvine.  American Nurses Association Council for Professional Nursing Education and Development.

 

Janz, WR (1996).  Defining Communities, Calling Architecture Into Service.  ‘Reinforcing Community Values Project, Defining Community, Reexamining Society’ conference.  University of Michigan-Flint.

 

Janz, W, C Gorby, and M Woollen (1996).  Activating Middle Landscapes among Architectural Students, Educators, Practitioners, and the Public.  AIA/ACSA Practice Education Summer Institute.

 

Janz, W, and B Schermer (1996).  Race for Space: Case Studies in the Marketing of Culture in Postwar and Postmodern America.  Poster Session: Environmental Design Research Association conference.

 

Janz, WR (1994).  Our All-Consuming Culture: Lincoln Center as a Case Study of Architectural Production and Consumption in Postwar America.  National Conference of the American Studies Association.

 

Janz, WR (1993).  The Re-Alignment Constructs of Eero Saarinen and Associates.  Center for the Study of the Practice and the Built Form Association International Symposium.

 

Janz, WR (1991).  Alternative Careers for Architects: Determining your Professional Path.  Panel presenter, AIA national conference.

 

 

Published References to Janz (Academic Press)

Groat, L. and D. Wang, eds.  Architectural Research Methods (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002), 290.

 

Downing, Frances.  Remembrance and the Design of Place (College Station, Texas: Texas A&M Press, 2000), 30-32, 115, 142-43.

 

Rapoport, A. (1995).  On the Nature of Design.  Practices. Center for the Study of Practice, University of Cincinnati.

 

Rapoport, A.  The Meaning of the Built Environment (Beverly Hills, California: Sage, 1982), 126-128.

 

 

(Selected) Popular Press References to Janz

Barankevych, O.  “Boxed Life: Architecture students build village of scrap material to better appreciate improvised shacks of homeless,” Ball State Daily News paper, 25 September 2002, editorial.