Teddy Cruz's work dwells at the border between San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico, where he has been developing a practice and pedagogy that emerge out of the particularities of this bicultural territory and the integration of theoretical research and design production. Teddy Cruz has been recognized internationally in collaboration with community-based nonprofit organizations such as Casa Familiar for its work on housing and its relationship to an urban policy more inclusive of social and cultural programs for the city. He obtained a Masters in Design Studies from Harvard University and the Rome Prize in Architecture from the American Academy in Rome.  He has recently received the 2004-05 James Stirling Memorial Lecture On The City Prize and is currently an associate professor in public culture and urbanism in the Visual Arts Department at UCSD in San Diego.

Rodrigo Tisi was trained as an architect at P. Universidad Católica de Chile, where he received his Masters degree in Architecture. He is presently a Ph.D. ABD candidate at the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. He has received different academic awards including the CONICYT scholarship (Chilean National Committee for Research and Technology). Tisi's academic experience includes teaching at P. Universidad Católica de Chile, Universidad Nacional Andres Bello, and Universidad Federico Santa María in Valparaíso, Chile. He has been an invited lecturer at Parsons School of Design and at the Department of Metropolitan Studies at New York University in New York. His professional background goes beyond architecture to incorporate aspects of performative design. His work is a multidisciplinary collaboration/exploration within the fields of visual arts, architecture and design. He has published articles on the topics of architecture, design, performance and politics of space.