Cruz Garcia is an afro-Puerto Rican architect, artist, curator, educator, author, theorist, and co-founder of WAI Architecture Think Tank together with Nathalie Frankowski, and now their child Ema Yuizarix. A planetary studio practicing by questioning the political, historical, and material legacy and imperatives of architecture and urbanism, WAI is one of their several platforms of public engagement that include the free and alternative education platform and trade-school LOUDREADERS.

Garcia is Associate Professor at Iowa State University where he is Design for Critical Futures Fellow in Activism, and faculty at the Advanced Architectural Design program at Columbia University. Together with Frankowski, he is the first recipient of the ACSA Fellowship to Advance Equity in Architecture.

His work has been part of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial and exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou Metz, Neues Museum Nuremberg, Museum of Modern Art New York, and the Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology Lisbon. He is co-author of Universal Principles of Architecture: 100 Archetypes, Methods, Conditions, Relationships, and Imaginaries, Narrative Architecture: A Kynical Manifesto, Pure Hardcore Icons: A Manifesto on Pure Form in Architecture, A Manual of Anti-Racist Architecture Education, and it’s a co-editor of the Journal of Architectural Education issue on Reparations! and InForma Journal issue on Networks of Solidarity.

Most recently he co-organized From Land Grab to LandBack in Johannesburg, South Africa, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, and Ames, USA.