K.
West
Designer/Artist
Chicago, U.S.
www.generalacres.com
Submission & Bio: "Bingham
in Transition: A Conditional Response"
K. West was born in Bellville, Illinois, 1981; “home” is
San Angelo, Texas. He graduated from the College of Architecture
and Planning at Ball State University in 2005. While there, he lived
in the hideout of gangster John Dillinger in the Historic West End
district of downtown Muncie, interned @ mOrphosis architects, worked
for Gray Architecture in Indianapolis, and edited glUe 5, The
Architecture Student Journal of Ball State University. “Home” today
is Chicago, Illinois where he is a founding partner of General Acres,
a self-described “group
of gentlemen who design and make stuff . . . united by their love
of strange machinery, boring buildings, animal poetry, and random
things they find along the way.” Kurt maintains
onesmallproject.com; and is the designer and assistant editor of
the forthcoming book OneSmallProject.
"Indianapolis: 7,000 abandoned houses"
Bart Peterson, Mayor of Indianapolis, Abandoned Housing Initiative, “Vacant Housing Project,” City of Indianapolis, Department of Metropolitan Development, HYPERLINK "http://www.indygov.org/eGov/City/DMD/Abandoned/Overview/results.htm" (accessed February 1, 2006).