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.

 

Lopez, R.  “Architecture students build living spaces from scraps,” Ball State Daily News paper, 25 September 2002.    

 

(article on UniverCity informal settlement),  Muncie StarPress newspaper, 23 September 2002, cover story.

 

Banks, D.  “BSU Students dream about COP Shops,” Muncie StarPress newspaper, 1 May 1997.

 

Meyers Sharp, JE.  “Ball State students design assisted-living rooms that make nursing homes feel JUST LIKE HOME,” Indianapolis Star newspaper, 20 April 1997.

 

Ridner, K (1997).  “A Sense of Place – North Campus Symposium,” Portico, University of Michigan.

 

Kliment, S (1991).  “Unsung Hero(ines): Celebrating the Nontraditional Professional Career.”  Architectural Record magazine.

 

“You Too Can Have Bright Ideas: Wes Janz and Vickie Abrahamson say anybody can be creative” Sunday Magazine cover story, Minneapolis StarTribune newspaper, 1988.

 

Currimbhoy, N (1986).  Minnesota Design: Marketing products calls for a unique setting.  Interiors magazine.

 

 

Selected Miscellaneous Presentations

Janz, WR and J Daksiewicz, A Janusz, and D McConkey (2003).  “Bocetoespacios: (objetoespacios) moduladores,” (Patterns of space sketches and space structures), presented to architects, students and faculty at the Universitaria de la Arquitectura in Rosario, Argentina and the Facultad de Arquitectura at the Universidad de Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires, Argentina; with simultaneous Spanish translations.

 

Janz, WR (2003).  “Leftover Spaces, Leftover Materials, Leftover People: The World Will Be a Better Place Because of Young Architects Such as You,” “The Living World: On Not Being Here A Long Time,” and “Four, For, Fore, For-: Architectural Installations by 26.26.26.25,” presented to faculty and students in the Department of Architecture of the University of Moratuwa, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

 

Janz, WR and ARCH 501 students (2002).  “Leftover spaces, leftover materials, leftover people” feature on Ball State cable access channel 43/57

 

Janz, WR (2002).  “Spaces Between, Spaces Among: Architectural Projects by 26.26.26.25”.  UniverCity academic festival, Ball State University.

 

Janz, WR (2001).  Respondent.  “Lutyens’ plan for Delhi” symposium, School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi, India.

 

Janz, WR (1998).  “My Dinners with Amos (Rapoport): Lessons Learned, Lessons now Taught.”  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, School of Architecture and Urban Planning.

 

Janz. WR (1997).  Moderator: AIA/ACSA Practice Education Summer Institute, Montana State University.

 

Janz, WR (1996).  “Designs on the North Campus: Eero Saarinen and Charles Moore Design the North Campus.”  Presenter: University of Michigan, College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

 

Janz, WR (1996).  “Northern Exposure: The North Campus Then and Now.”  Presenter: University of Michigan, Institute for the Humanities Summer Camp.

 

Janz, WR (1996).  Commencement speaker: University of Michigan, Department of Architecture and Doctoral Program in Architecture.

 

 

Teaching                                 Ball State University

Arch 598          Contemporary Topics seminar

Fall 2000, 2001, 2003

Arch 598/495    Ephemeral Structures seminar  (elective)

Fall 2002

Arch 552          Architectural Research seminar

Fall 1998, 1999

Arch 525          Environmental Design seminar

Fall 1996 and 1997

Arch 501          Design Studio

Fall 2002, 2003

Arch 459          Professional Practice seminar

Spring 1996

Arch 400          Design Studio

Spring 2004

Arch 302          Design Studio

Spring 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002

 

Arch 301          Design Studio

Fall 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, & 2001

Arch 100          Introduction to Architecture lecture

Fall 1995, 1996, 1997, & 1998

Spring 1997, 1998, & 1999

Summer 1997 & 1998

 

GRADUATE THESIS or CREATIVE PROJECT

COMMITTEES CHAIRED

2000                 S Nikolic: Image and the Architect

2000+               C  Boardman: Can ‘Good’ Architecture be Done in the Midwest

2002+               E Singh: Invention and Innovation in Architectural Practice

2003+               G. Carrio:

2003+               T Guenes: Temporary & Mobile: Turning Points for Architectural Practice and Education

2004                 Z Ji:

2004                                  B McKinney: An Architecture of Total Loss: Building Learning Communities, Generating Learning Spaces

2003                 N Somaiya: 

 

UNDERGRADUATE THESIS COMMITTEES

1995-present     R Bell, S Blackburn, K Brown, S Cook, S Godfrey, R Hallowell, D Hoang, A Janusz, K Kleyla, J Knapp, A Lane, B Luckock, D McCloskey, E Menk, G Ogg, P Owens, R Page, S Perera, R Robison, B Schubert, J Sheets, K Singh, J Sitzman, G Tucker, V Vela, M Vincent, K West, B Wheelock, P Williams, T Winiger

 

INVITED CRITIC

1999                                  University of Michigan College of Architecture + Urban Planning.  Foreign Studies Program in Florence, Italy.

 

 

Field Study Tour Direction and Co-Direction

INTERNATIONAL

2003 (with Dr. Nihal Perera)

CapAsia III: Colombo, Sri Lanka, Build-Design-Build project with fifteen students from departments of planning, architecture, and landscape architecture AND three faculty colleagues and fifty second year architecture students at the University of Moratuwa.  One pavilion of scavenged timber, another of mud; both built with no budget and no electricity, in ten days.

 

2001 (with Dr. Nihal Perera)

CapAsia II: Hong Kong (three days), Delhi (two weeks), Mumbai (the group was there for five weeks, I was there for two weeks), Colombo, Sri Lanka (three weeks), and Singapore (three days).  Fifteen undergraduate and graduate students from departments of planning, architecture, and landscape architecture.

 

DOMESTIC

2002

Ohio and Pennsylvania: work by Wright, Pei, Johnson/Burgee, Gilbert, McDonouth, Venturi/Scott Brown, StudioWorks, Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer, and Eisenman; and two schools of architecture (Ohio State and Carnegie Mellon); eleven graduate students, five days.

 

2001

Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota; buildings by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer, Barnes, Johnson/Burgee, and Gehry; two office visits; six graduate students and sixty-five undergrads, five days.

 

2000

Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio; works by Wright, Mies, Calatrava, the Saarinens, Holl, Williams and Tsien, McDonough, Birkerts, and Lin; three assembly lines (Herman Miller, Steelcase, and General Motors), one architectural office, and three school of architecture; five graduate students and eleven undergrads, six days.

 

1999

Los Angeles metro area, projects by Kahn, mOrphosis, Meier, Gehry, Moss, Ehrlich, the Eameses, Williams & Tsien, and Legoretta; visits to mOrphosis, Moore Ruble Yudell, and Eric Owen Moss; thirty-five students, six days.

Illinois: Farnsworth House (Mies) and Ford House (Goff); thirteen undergrads, day trip.

Texas A&M University ‘Transitions to Schools of the Future’ symposium and Houston (Johnson/Burgee, Piano, de Menil); seven undergraduate students, five days.

Community review in Fort Wayne, Indiana; sixty students, day trip.

 

1998

University of Michigan (Daniel Libeskind lecture and James Carpenter exhibition); twelve students, day trip.

University of Michigan (workshops, Sheila Kennedy lecture); seven graduate students, day trip.

Toronto, Ontario (Third International Conference on Courthouse Design and office tour hosted by Jack Diamond), Cranbrook Academy of Art (Eliel Saarinen, Holl, and Rose); Toledo Museum of Art addition (Gehry); eighteen undergraduates, five days.

HOK (St. Louis, MO) office workshop and visit to Thomas Eagleton Federal Courthouse; three students, two days.

Columbus, OH: Wexner Center ‘Fabrications’ symposium (presentations by Betsky, Hodgetts, Hawkinson, Kennedy, Mockbee, Moss, Norten, office dA, Patkau, Quigley, and Riley); two faculty and seven students, day trip.

1997

Washington, DC, University of Virginia, and Monticello: thirty-five undergrads, six days.

Cranbrook Academy of Art and University of Michigan (McDonnell and Toumey lecture); four students, day trip.

 

1996

Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN: sixty students, five days.

Cranbrook Academy of Art: eighteen students, day trip.

University of Michigan: Vincent Scully lecture; six students, day trip.

 

1995

Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN: seventy students, five days.

 

 

Administrative                        Director

Responsibilities                      Master of Architecture II (post-professional) program

                                                BALL STATE UNIVERSITY

                                                1999-present

 

Sponsored Activities

2001                 Office of the Associate Provost

 ‘To Build a Culture of Scholarship II’

Money to continue bringing visiting scholars to the post-professional MArch II program.                                   $10,000

 

2000                                  Office of the Associate Provost

‘To Build a Culture of Scholarship’

Support to bring visiting scholars to the post-professional MArch II program                                 $10,000

 

2000                                  Dean’s Office, College of Architecture and Planning

‘Building Bridges, Building a Graduate Program’

Funds to visit TU-Berlin and purchase 300 blank CDs

                                                                                                $2,000

 

International Exchange and Agreement Meetings

2003                 Buenos Aires, Argentina: Universidad de Palermo, University de Belgrano, Universidad de Buenos Aires, and Universidad Argentina John F. Kennedy. 

Rosario, Argentina: Universitaria de la Arquitectura.

2000                 Copenhagen, Denmark: Denmark International Studies Program workshop.  Berlin, Germany: Technical University-Berlin to discuss exchange with Ball State.

 

 

Service Activities                   Ball State University

2001-present     Self-Study 2004 Steering Committee

(National accreditation, conducted every ten years)

2003                                  Member, Search Committee

Associate Dean of the Graduate School

 

 

Ball State University College of Architecture and Planning

2001-2002                  UniverCity 2002 Planning Committee

1999-2002                  University Senate

2000-present     Co-Director, CapAsia field study program(s)

2000-present     Coordinator, Denmark International Studies Program

1999-present     Coordinator, TU-Berlin exchange program

1999-2002         Member, CAP Council

 

 

Ball State University Department of Architecture

1999-present     Director, Master of Architecture Program

2003-present     Promotion and Tenure Committee

2004                 Digital Media/Fabrication Faculty Search Committee

                        Environmental Systems Faculty Search Committee

1999-2000         Merit Committee

1998-present     Student Mentor

Z Benedict, Moore Ruble Yudell internship

C Cantrell, Hodgetts + Fung intern

K Copelin, Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer internship

J Daksiewicz, internship at mOrphosis

R Hallowell, Hodgetts + Fung internship, employment at Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates

K Kleyla, Killefer Flammang Purtell internship, Columbia MArch degree, employment at Rafael Vinoly

B Luckock, Denmark International Studies Program

D McConkey, internship w/ mOrphosis, Bartlett School MArch degree, employment at Roto

O Matla, employment at Moore Ruble Yudell

S Perera, mOrphosis internship

B Roseberry, Robert AM Stern internship

TJ Swanson, employment @ Gehry Associates

V Vela, Moore Ruble Yudell intern

M Vincent, internship at Moore Ruble Yudell

K West, mOrphosis intern

P Williams, Denmark International Studies Program

1998-2000         Portfolio Review Coordinator

1997-1999         Faculty Mentor

1996-1998         Curriculum Committee

1996-1999         Third Year Faculty Coordinator

1995-1996         AIAS Faculty Advisor

 

 

University of Michigan College of Architecture + Urban Planning

1993-1994                  Chair Search & Screen Committee (Architecture)

 

 

Association of College Schools of Architecture

1999                                  2000 Annual Meeting, Invited Paper Referee

1998                                  1999 Annual Meeting, Invited Paper Referee

 

American Institute of Architects/

Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture

1996-1997                  Practice Education Summer Institute

Steering Committee & Panel Moderator

 

Carmelite Nuns of Indianapolis

2002+               Advisory Board