Socializing Architecture

eng.

At the intersection of architecture, art, public culture,
and political theory, Socializing Architecture urges architects
and urbanists to mobilize a new public imagination
toward a more just and equitable urbanization.
Drawn from decades of lived experience, Teddy Cruz and
Fonna Forman engage the San Diego –Tijuana border
region as a global laboratory to address the central challenges
of urbanization today: deepening social and
economic inequality, dramatic migratory shifts, explosive
urban informality, climate disruption, the thickening
of border walls, and the decline of public thinking.
Following Spatializing Justice, Socializing Architecture is
the second part of a two-volume monograph. It continues
to build a compelling case for architects and urban
designers to intervene in the contested space between
public and private interests. Through analysis and diverse
case studies, the authors demonstrate strategies for altering
exclusionary urban policies and advancing instead a
more equitable and convivial architecture.

Professors Cruz and Forman are principals in ESTUDIO TEDDY
CRUZ + FONNA FORMAN, a research-based political and architectural
practice in San Diego. They lead a variety of urban
research agendas and civic/public interventions in the San
Diego–Tijuana border region and beyond. They also direct the
University of California, San Diego’s Center on Global Justice,
which focuses on community-based solutions to poverty and
environmental crisis.