Since the mid 1980s, Wes Jones has been exploring the paths of "machine-architecture", in search of a connection between the body and its technological world, and a vernacular expression of mechanistic forms and industrial objects. The work produced by Jones Partners : Architecture (founded in 1993 in San Francisco, and then in Los Angeles), is aimed--through this assertion of the technical/logical quintessence of architecture--to sidestep the tyrannies of form and "signature" The Pro/Con Package Home project is the outcome of a joint project between Jones, Partners : Architecture and a group of UCLA architecture students. This project, based as it is on the existing infrastructures of intermodal industrial container transport, proposes a mail order line of "à la carte" housing or dwelling modules. As the basic elements of this business, the containers are presented both as architectural and structural programmatic units (pro(gram)/con(tainer), and as a marketing medium. Creating housing units comes down to assembling them, and arranging all the necessary interstitial spaces between them.

Jones, Partners : Architecture
Jones (Wes) (1958)