About the Author
Wes Janz, PhD, RA
Associate Professor of Architecture
Ball State University

Link: Personal Website

Wes Janz is an architectural educator at Ball State University, uniting professional education (MArch, UW-Milwaukee, 1978; PhD, University of Michigan, 1995) with building activities alongside architects, architecture students, and the world's working and urban poor. He regularly teaches the first design studio in the post-professional Master of Architecture II program, and upper level theory seminars. As director of the MArch II program, he shapes a “global citizen-architect” mission, recruiting students from Southeast and South Asia, Latin America, Europe, and the US. He is also co-director of CapAsia, an 11-week immersive program that provides a cross section of world architecture, urbanism, and planning for graduate and undergraduate and students in selected South Asian regions and cities. With students, faculty colleagues, and collaborators in 26262625, he has constructed no-cost installations in Argentina, Sri Lanka, and the US. He regularly presents peer-reviewed papers, including the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture National and International Meetings, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, and American Studies Association Annual Meeting. In addition, projects by 26262625 were honored with an AIA-Indiana Honor Award in 2000 and an AIA-Indianapolis Merit Award in 2003.