Pedro Cruz Cruz is a Puerto Rican architectural designer, visual artist, educator, and activist for immigrant rights, public space advocacy, and climate action. As an educator at City College’s Spitzer School of Architecture, he teaches how architecture and design activism can be used as planning strategies for co-creation and advancing social justice.

Pedro’s practice combines politically and culturally informed design with community-led initiatives, interdisciplinary collaboration, and multimedia methodologies, including graphic anthropology, oral histories, film documentation, and cultural programming. His work addresses themes of in/formal urban politics, spatial sovereignty, the right to the commons, landscapes of power and resistance, the aesthetics of belonging, and critical solidarity for post-colonial, emancipatory futures. 

He serves as a lead installation designer at Jerome Haferd Studio, a core organizer for Dark Matter U, and a lead initiator for De Manera Isleña, an interdisciplinary spatial practice collective led by a network of Caribbean practitioners engaged in projects around cultural preservation in light of climate change, and the building of equitable communities.

Pedro holds a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Design from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, and a Master’s in Architecture from City College’s Spitzer School of Architecture, where he also serves as the Communications and Engagement Associate for the Place Memory and Culture Incubator in Harlem.