Architect, educator and artist Troy West has guest lectured on his art and architecture at more than thirty universities in the USA and abroad.  He received his architecture degrees (BArch/MArch) from Carnegie Mellon University and later joined the faculty and founded ARCHITECTURE 2001, the first university based community design center in the country.  He is one of the original seven architects selected to form the new School of Architecture at New Jersey Institute of Technology, and is a recipient of The Board of Overseers of The Foundation at NJIT for outstanding service to the Newark community and for his professional expertise in the preservation and reclamation of urban areas.  In addition, he was awarded a fellowship for design from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and received the annual recognition award from the Newark Preservation & Landmarks Commission.

West has received numerous national and international awards for his architecture and urban design, including first prizes in competitions for: The New American House (MN); House of Women (CA); Southside Broad Street-Providence Neighborhood Revitalization (RI); and Design Studies of Westport Railroad Station (CT); second prize awarded for Housing Prototypes for Atlantic City (NJ), third prizes for: Monmouth County Alliance for new integrated housing for residents with psychiatric disabilities (NJ); and the Monroeville Civic Center (PA), and an honorable mention in the Seattle 4x4 Design Competition for 85 low income units (WA).  In addition, he was first prize recipient of the John Stewardson Memorial Traveling Fellowship (PA), and his projects have twice been selected for the Annual Progressive Architecture Design Awards Program.

His architecture works are featured in books including:  Building Commons and Community  (New Village Press); Green Architecture (Taschen); New Houses-New Households (Reinhold); Yesterdays Structures: Today’s Homes (Schiffer); Cities Fit To Live In (MacMillan); Maps (Little, Brown and Co.); The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning (Yale Press); Architectural Design Preview, USA (Reinhold); Mixed Land Use (Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross, Inc.); Discrimination by Design (University of Illinois Press); Humanscape: Environments for People (Duxbury); Tete Défense Monographies (Electa Moniteur), and periodicals which include:  Designer-Builder; Metropolis; Shelterforce; Faith and Form; The Architectural Forum; Architectural Design; L´Architecture D´Aujourd´hui; Architecture & Engineering News; Design Quarterly; Architecture; Architectural Record; and Architecture New Jersey.

His works of art have been exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States and Europe.  West has had twelve solo exhibitions including:  The Carnegie Institute Museum of Art (PA); Duke University (NC); Courthouse Center for the Arts (RI); and Rutgers University Galleries (NJ).  Current exhibitions include:  Amerikanische Industrieruinenzum Leben Erweckt – Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main (Germany) and Neo-Constructivism:  Art, Architecture & Activism (NJ).

Current architecture projects include: artist’s live-work buildings in the Lincoln Park historic district of Newark, New Jersey; designs for the transformation of a dangerous intersection and underused adjacent property into a pedestrian friendly center with a combination of commercial, office, affordable housing and civic use for the town of Wakefield and the development of a Neighborhood Plan & Model for Peace Dale Revitalization Committee in Rhode Island.