Maryland Institute College of Art

Teddy Cruz, co-founder of CUE/Center for Urban Ecologies and Professor of Culture and Urbanism, University of California San Diego, is an architect with a humane vision for metropolitan areas across America whose work breaks down physical and cultural barriers, mixing wealthy and poor, old and new, and public and private. Internationally renowned for his urban research on the Tijuana-San Diego border, his work focuses on traditionally overlooked poor, minority and immigrant communities and spaces, and has transformed border neighborhoods in California and communities in New York by creating affordable, quality housing and public infrastructure.