Teddy Cruz's practice is rooted in the social and economic conditions of the trans-border territory between San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico. Artkrush editor Paul Laster recently spoke to Cruz about his social concerns and his projects currently on view from New York to Venice.
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AK: A previous generation of experimental architects, such as Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, and Peter Eisenman, worked theoretically until developers eventually caught up to their innovative design ideas. Do you foresee the day when you and the other architects in the Into the Open: Positioning Practice exhibition will have projects realized around the world?

TC: Everybody's flocking to Dubai and China to build their dream castles, but in the meantime, we have places in the world like Latin America where they're reconfiguring themselves politically and trying to find alternative ways to produce development that don't rely on those recipes of American style globalization. But architects are not there. I hope that a lot of the speculations, theories, and observations that I've been developing — with the help of institutions like the PARC Foundation — can take place in fact in places like Latin America.

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I hope that much of the world that we are developing today will be picked up, and that we have the opportunity to operate in context, where new models and possibilities empower communities. People themselves can be the material to produce new architectures.