Architect, educator and artist Troy West has guest lectured extensively on his Art and Architecture at Universities in the United States and abroad. He received the Bachelor and Masters of Architecture degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, and later joined the faculty and founded architecture 2001, one of the first university based community design centers in the United States. He is one of the original seven architects selected to form the school of architecture at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and has maintained his architecture practice since 1963.