Estudio Teddy Cruz
(1962)
USA
  

 

 

 Teddy Cruz is a graduate of California Polytechnic State University, and obtained a Master’s degree at Harvard. He founded his agency Estudio Teddy Cruz in San Diego (California) in 1993. As an architect, writer and theoretician, Teddy Cruz is recognized for his architecture, where social responsibility combines with civic commitment and artistic motivation. His praxis, by way of its geographical location, falls within the border area between San Diego in the US and Tijuana in Mexico, where two different cultures, societies, and economies rub shoulders and occupy one and the same space. By zooming in on the specific features of this bi-cultural territory, Teddy Cruz endeavours to recontextualize global processes and tries to produce more hybrid and more flexible landscapes. Winner, among other things, of the Prix de Rome (1991), PA Awards from Architecture Magazine in New York City (2001 and 2004), the James Stirling Memorial Lecture On The City Prize in Montreal (2004-2005), he teaches as an associate professor at the School of Architecture and Design at Woodbury University in San Diego, where he has founded the Border Institute, a research centre involved with the border phenomenon between the USA and Mexico. His work has been discussed in several publications, and appeared in international exhibitions, in particular at the show Urban Diagnostics, which commemorated the 20th anniversary of the Tijuana Cultural Center. He is currently a member of the International Editorial Board for AD Magazine in London.