Who Knows What Will Happen | Wes Jones

{"version":"0.3.0","atoms":[],"cards":[],"markups":[],"sections":[[1,"p",[[0,[],0,"Maple St. Construct will be presenting our final exhibition of 2022, Who Knows What Will Happen, featuring the work of Los Angeles-based architect and artist Wes Jones."],[0,[],0,"Wes Jones Is known primarily as an architect, though he has also taught for most of his career and made art since even before everything else. He grew up in Southern California but went to college back east, where he first trained as a soldier, and then as an architect, graduating with a professional degree from a fancy school out there and then going to work for the most famous New York architect not to win a Pritzker. After working on that architect\u2019s break out building, he moved to San Francisco to become design partner at a young office there, which went on to win a bunch of awards. He finally came back down to live and work in Los Angeles in the late \u201890s, where he\u2019s been ever since. He thinks of himself as a maker, and art as one venue for that activity. So, everything is fair game for his craft\u2014not only buildings and art, but also furniture and other household objects as well as the accoutrements that adorn the buildings he designs, like sunshading mechanisms and jukebox storage devices."],[0,[],0,"Jones is a partner in Jones, Partners: Architecture, a California-based architectural practice founded in 1993. His technologically inspired designs for completed buildings and theoretical projects have received acclaim for their critical engagement with the contemporary cultural scene and their disciplinary sophistication. He has written and lectured internationally on technology and the work of the firm and has taught in the schools of Architecture at Harvard, Princeton, IIT, Columbia, UCLA, the Ohio State University, SCI-Arc and now USC. Most recently he held the Frank Gehry Chair at the University of Toronto, and Howard Friedman Professor of Practice at UC Berkeley. Jones is licensed as an architect in California, Oregon and New York. "]]]]}