Cruz Garcia / WAI Think Tank

Porto Rico/USA

Architect, Author, Educator
Cruz Garcia is an afro-Puerto Rican architect, artist, curator, educator, and author. Together with Nathalie Frankowski, he is co-founding director of WAI Architecture Think Tank, the antidsciplinary collective Post-Novis, and the alternative platform of education and trade school LOUDREADERS.
They are authors of A Manual of Anti-Racist Architecture Education, Narrative Architecture: A Kynical Manifesto, Pure Hardcore Icons: A Manifesto on Pure Form in Architecture, the upcoming book Universal Principles of Architecture: 100 Archetypes, Methods, Conditions, Relationships, and Imaginaries, and co-editors of the Journal of Architectural Education issue on Reparations! and InForma Journal issue on Networks of Solidarity.

Their work has been included in exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou Metz, Neues Museum Nuremberg, Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology Lisbon, Museum of Modern Art New York, the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial, and the Venice Architecture Biennale. Garcia is faculty of the AAD program at Columbia GSAPP and Associate Professor at Iowa State University he is Design for Critical Futures Fellow in Activism.
 
Grantee under the "Rethinking the South - Repensando Sul" program from the KfW Foundation.