Teddy Cruz

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Teddy Cruz's work dwells at the border between San Diego and Tijuana, and inspires an architectural practice that emerges out of this bicultural territory and the integration of theoretical research and design production.

Cruz was born in Guatemala, educated at Cal Poly, and spent a year in Florence, before completing his education at Harvard. In 1991, he received the prestigious Rome Prize in Architecture and returned to San Diego to begin his own practice, estudio teddy cruz. There, he founded the Bi-Border Institute to study the border region and find urban planning and housing prototypes to address the particularities of the US-Mexico border. His awards include PA Awards from Architecture Magazine, the Architectural League of New York Young Architects Forum Award, and the James Stirling Memorial Lecture On The City Prize. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.

Cruz consults on migration patterns across international borders and responds architecturally with a stripped-down, modern esthetic toward readily-assembled multi-housing. This year, he will participate in the Architecture Biennials in Rotterdam and Lisbon, advise on the 2nd Mies Van Der Rohe Award for Latin American Architecture, and serve as a member of the International Editorial Board of AD Magazine in London. estudio teddy cruz was selected as one of the eight national “Emergent Voices” in architecture by the Urban League of New York City.