Living Rooms, though, is that it reacts to and relies on the existing political and economic systems in its development. The real project was figuring out how to work through the legal restrictions in order to get the politics on their side. The entire program of housing, community space, and the headquarters of a nonprofit organization had to be sited on a single parcel, and the structures had to be designed so that they could call it “public art,� to work around the development restrictions. The parcel was made into an infrastructure for growth at the local level through infrastructure that frames the complexity of the informal.
Teddy Cruz | Living Rooms at the Border (Casa Familia) | San Diego, USA | 2006
Teddy Cruz | Manufactured Sites | Tijuana, Mexico | 2005