Pedro Cruz Cruz

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, interstices, and interdependencies of island being, climate resilience, and engagement in anti-colonial and anti-racist imaginaries within the Caribbean.