Teddy Cruz to speak at UCI in 2010
Teddy Cruz is an Associate Professor in public culture and urbanism in the Visual Arts Department at UCSD.
Teddy Cruz will speak for the UCI Design Alliance (Thursday, March 4, 2010) and for freshmen in the Humanities Core Course (Friday, March 5, 2010). In addition to teaching at UCSD, Teddy Cruz is the principal of Estudio Cruz, a San Diego based architectural firm. Cruz studies informal architecture in Tijuana and the place-making of immigrants in San Diego suburbs in order to adapt the creativity and resourcefulness of “shantytown” architecture to more formal design practices.
From the UCSD website
“Teddy Cruz’ work dwells at the border between San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico, where he has been developing a practice and pedagogy that emerge out of the particularities of this bicultural territory and the integration of theoretical research and design production. Teddy’ Cruz has been recognized internationally in collaboration with community-based nonprofit organizations such as Casa Familiar for its work on housing and its relationship to an urban policy more inclusive of social and cultural programs for the city. He obtained a Masters in Design Studies from Harvard University and the Rome Prize in Architecture from the American Academy in Rome. He has recently received the 2004-05 James Stirling Memorial Lecture On The City Prize and is currently an Associate Professor in public culture and urbanism in the Visual Arts Department at UCSD in San Diego.”
Cruz’s work has been featured in the New York Times (and again).
Other links:
Architectural Record
Event co-sponsored by the UCI Design Alliance and the Humanities Core Course.
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