an Diego architect Teddy Cruz, and his firm Estudio Teddy Cruz, have been working along the Mexican border for years. Cruz’s newest design is for two affordable housing and community center schemes for immigrants in the border town of San Ysidro, California. The plan was developed with non-profit community center, Casa Familiar, whose client base is mostly Spanish-speaking…
Guatamalan born architect Teddy Cruz brought his form of socially responsible and artistically motivated architecture to the University of Detroit Mercy’s McNichols campus in Detroit on Feb. 26th. He keynoted the second of several public lectures conducted by the UD-Mercy’s School of Architecture and sponsored by the Great Lakes Fabricators & Erectors Association…
Our practice is inspired by our location at the border between San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico (US and Latin America), where two radically different cultures, societies and economies approximate each other and occupy the same geography. By zooming into the particularities of this bicultural territory, we are able to recontextualize global processes that search to produce more hybrid and flexible landscapes…
Teddy Cruz’s work integrates research, theory, and design production to create architecture, interiors, furniture, installations, public art, and landscape interventions…