Designer | Educator | Researcher | Social Practitioner
Design Practice
Pedro Cruz Cruz is a Puerto Rican architectural designer, educator, social practitioner, and researcher based in New York. His community-focused practice examines how people take and make space through ground-up planning strategies while developing contextual-informed projects that challenge the marginalized narratives that shape our built environment and ecologies. Cruz is currently an adjunct lecturer at The City College of New York, CUNY, where he engages students in iterative forms of politically and culturally informed design through community-led initiatives, interdisciplinary collaboration, and multimedia methodologies such as graphic anthropology, activism, film documentation, and cultural organizing. His current work explores the spatial and aesthetic relationships of island being, climate resilience, and engagement in anti-colonial and anti-racist imaginaries within the Caribbean and its diaspora.
EXHIBITIONS & PUBLICATIONS
Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Multiplicity Exhibition, Portugal September 2022 — December 2022
Market Share - Urban Omnibus | An Online Publisher by The Architectural League - New York 2021
Intersections Research Conference - EQUITABLE COMMUNITIES AIA/ACSA, New York 2021
Architecture an Apparatus and Social Process Exhibit, Queens, New York May 2021
ACCOLADES
Columbia's Buell Center Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate, and Society, New York City January 2023
Create Change Artist in Residence | The Laundromat Project January 2023
Master Category Winner at the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Portugal 2022
Social Practice CUNY Fellowship, New York 2021-2022
FCNY Community Planning Fellowship, New York 2021-2022
Castagna Architectural Scholarship, New York 2021