Cruz García Explained

Cruz Garcia
Nationality:Puerto Rican
Birth Date:1983 6, df=yes
Birth Place:San Juan, Puerto Rico
Alma Mater:University of Puerto Rico
Practice:WAI Architecture Think Tank
Significant Projects:Pure Hardcore Icons: A Manifesto on Pure Form in Architecture

Cruz Garcia (born 1983, San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican architect, artist, and architectural theorist.[1] Since 2008 he directs WAI Architecture Think Tank, an architectural practice he founded in Brussels with Nathalie Frankowski, with whom he also collaborates in the art collective Garcia Frankowski.[2] Cruz Garcia relocated to Beijing in 2009 with WAI Architecture Think Tank and Garcia Frankowski.[3] [4]

Background

Cruz Garcia was born on 27 June 1983 in San Juan, Puerto Rico to Cruz "Pensa" Garcia (born 1958) and Lourdes Santiago (born 1959). His father is an international athletic coach and physical trainer. Cruz "Pensa" Garcia trained several Olympic athletes and world boxing champions. Boxers trained by Cruz "Pensa" Garcia include Puerto Rican International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee Félix Trinidad, retired former champion Alex Sanchez, and Argentinean former world champion Marcos Maidana.[5] [6] [7]

Part of a family of athletes and coaches, Cruz and his brother Manuel Garcia (an international runner and CAC Junior Champion), were track and field athletes and trained alongside world class athletes and boxing champions.[8]

A crucial point in Cruz Garcia's studies happened in 2008, during Félix Trinidad's last fight as a professional boxer. In his fight versus former world champion Roy Jones Jr., Trinidad brought Garcia as part of his training team to New York in order for him to complete his research on Narrative Architectures with pieces exposed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.[9]

Career

After receiving a master's degree in Architecture from the University of Puerto Rico, Cruz Garcia moved from Puerto Rico to Brussels, Belgium, where he founded WAI Architecture Think Tank with Nathalie Frankowski. Also during 2008, Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski started collaborating on the art collective Garcia Frankowski.[10] [11]

Since 2009 both WAI and Garcia Frankowski operate mainly from Beijing making international publications, exhibitions, writings, and architectural projects from the Chinese capital.

Cruz Garcia is the co-editor-in-chief of What About It? an independent architecture and urbanism magazine.[12]

In 2013 Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski designed and published the book Pure Hardcore Icons: A Manifesto on Pure Form in Architecture.[13]

Cruz Garcia recent projects include the shortlisted design for the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, in Moscow, Russia, and the book Shapes, Islands, Texts: A Garcia Frankowski Manifesto.[14]

The Work of Cruz Garcia has been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Columbus, Chicago, Michigan, Barcelona, Madrid, Bratislava, Buenos Aires, San Juan, Montevideo, Guadalajara, London, Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo, Osaka, Milan, Venice, Istanbul, Prague, Helsinki, Paris, Sydney, Melbourne, Lisbon and Porto.

Publications

Exhibitions

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Diseño Urbano desde China: Lleno de Proyectos, el arquitecto Cruz Garcia habla sobre su experiencia en Oriente. El Nuevo Día. Rivera Esquilín, Eileen. 19 November 2011. 18 October 2013.
  2. Web site: Alvarez, Paula. On Manifestos, form, criticism and autonomy: Interview with Garcia Frankowski. Book-A.net. 5 August 2013. 20 October 2013.
  3. Web site: Ponce Ruiz, Luis. Cruce y Cruz: Entrevista en Tres Partes al Arq. Cruz Garcia (parte 1). Revista Cruce. 2012. 20 October 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131011121659/http://revistacruce.com/politica-sociedad/cruce-y-cruz-entrevista-en-tres-partes-al-arq-cruz-garcia-parte-1.html. 11 October 2013. dmy-all.
  4. Web site: Alvarez, Paula. Entrevista a Garcia Frankowski: Formas Critica y Autonomia. Arqa. 26 August 2013. 20 October 2013.
  5. Web site: Rafael, Dan. De La Hoya in 2014 Class. ESPN. 4 December 2013. 4 December 2013.
  6. News: Primera Hora. Afila'o Como Navaja . Primera Hora. 16 January 2008. 20 October 2013.
  7. Web site: Morilla, Diego. Maidana: I Have to Win at All Cost. ESPN. 16 January 2008. 23 September 2011.
  8. Web site: Ponce Ruiz, Luis. Cruce y Cruz: Entrevista en Tres Partes al Arq. Cruz Garcia (parte 2). Revista Cruce. 2012. 20 October 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131206145400/http://revistacruce.com/politica-sociedad/cruce-y-cruz-entrevista-en-tres-partes-al-arq-cruz-garcia-parte-2.html. 6 December 2013. dmy-all.
  9. Web site: Ponce Ruiz, Luis . Cruce y Cruz: Entrevista en Tres Partes al Arq. Cruz Garcia (parte 3) . Revista Cruce . 2012 . 20 October 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131206150716/http://revistacruce.com/politica-sociedad/cruce-y-cruz-entrevista-en-tres-partes-al-arq-cruz-garcia-parte-3.html . 6 December 2013 .
  10. Web site: Alvarez, Paula. On Manifestos, form, criticism and autonomy: Interview with Garcia Frankowski. Book-A.net. 5 August 2013. 20 October 2013.
  11. Web site: Alvarez, Paula. Entrevista a Garcia Frankowski: Formas Critica y Autonomia. Arqa. 26 August 2013. 20 October 2013.
  12. Web site: Cormier, Brendan. DIY Publishing: An Interview with What About It?. The Popup City. 17 March 2011. 28 March 2011.
  13. Book: Cruz Garcia, Nathalie Frankowski . Pure Hardcore Icons: A Manifesto on Pure Form in Architecture . Artifice Books on Architecture . 978-1-908967-39-8 . 2013.
  14. Book: Cruz Garcia, Nathalie Frankowski . Shapes, Islands, Texts: A Garcia Frankowski Manifesto . Vibok Works . 978-84-941464-7-3 . 2013.
  15. Web site: PIFO Gallery presents group exhibition "2014' The 7th Abstract Exhibition"/. CAFA Art Info. 13 June 2014. 26 June 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150626105449/http://en.cafa.com.cn/pifo-gallery-presents-group-exhibition-2014-the-7th-abstract-exhibition.html. dead.
  16. Web site: 'Cut 'n' Paste: From Architectural Assemblage to Collage City /. Museum of Modern Art. 12 November 2013.
  17. Web site: Archizines. Vitra Design Museum. 12 November 2013.
  18. Web site: Archizines /. Storefront for Art and Architecture. 12 November 2013.
  19. Web site: University of Puerto Rico. ACSA. 14 November 2013.
  20. Web site: WAI Architecture: What About It. Designboom. 12 November 2013.
  21. Web site: Archizines. Architectural Association. 10 November 2013. 6 December 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131206192141/http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/PUBLIC/WHATSON/exhibitions.php?item=218. dead.
  22. Web site: POST POST POST Nueva Arquitectura Iberoamericana. CCEBA. 10 October 2013.
  23. Web site: Unplanned: Research and Experiments at the Urban Scale. Superfront. 8 October 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130818151722/http://losangeles.superfront.org/2010/01/unplanned-research-experiments-at-the-urban-scale/. 18 August 2013. dead.

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