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Radicalizing the Local: Post-Bubble Urban Strategies

Lecturer: Cruz, T.
Faculty:Architecture
Type:lecture
Date:2009-05-26
Publisher: Delft University of Technology
Source:The Berlage, Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban Design
Duration:1:47:45
Keywords: Teddy Cruz · The Berlage Lezingen
Rights: (c) Delft University of Technology · Creative Commons BY

Abstract

Teddy Cruz is a Guatemala-born architect, whose work dwells at the border between San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico. He has been developing a practice and pedagogy that emerges out of the particularities of this bicultural territory. He is 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. His work has been exhibited internationally, including Archilab in Orleans, France, the Architectural Biennials of Rotterdam and Lisbon and most recently at the San Francisco Art Institute and the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2004–2005 he was the first recipient of the James Stirling Memorial Lecture On The City Prize, by the Canadian Center of Architecture and the London School of Economics, and is currently an associate professor in public culture and urbanism in the Visual Arts Department at UCSD in San Diego.

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