MEXUS: A Geography of Interdependence, a visualization project that investigates the many cross-border flows—the watersheds, indigenous and protected lands, and ecological and metropolitan zones—that transgress the US-Mexico border. The wall is not simply a place where things end. MEXUS considers a more porous border region and  challenges the legitimacy of an undifferentiated line between nations imposed onto a territory, which truncates the social and environmental systems that bridge divided nations. MEXUS presents a thicker set of ecologies framed by the existing structure of binational watersheds that sustain the entire region.

Public exhibition of MEXUS: A geography of interdependence
Seoul Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, Seoul, September 2019.
http://www.seoulbiennale.org/www_2019/index.php

Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet, Architekturzentrum Wien, Vienna, April 2019 https://www.azw.at/en/event/critical-care-architektur-und-urbanismus-fuer-einen-planeten-in-der-krise/

Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment traveling exhibition: Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2019. https://crystalbridges.org/exhibitions/natures-nation/

Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival, XII Triennale Milano, Milan, March 2019. http://www.brokennature.org/

U.S. presentation of Dimensions of Citizenship: Architecture and Belonging from the Body to the Cosmos, Wrightwood 659, Chicago, February 2019.
https://wrightwood659.org/exhibitions/dimensions-of-citizenship/

Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, September 2018.
https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/exhibitions/2818

Dimensions of Citizenship, U.S. Pavilion, The 18^th Venice Architectural Biennale, Venice, July 2018 http://dimensionsofcitizenship.org/participants/estudio-teddy-cruz-plus-fonna-forman/

Publication
Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz, “Nation against Nature: From the Global Border to the Cross-Border Commons,” Architectural Design, forthcoming

Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz, “Interdependence as a Political Tool: Three Building Blocks for Gaza,” Open Gaza, eds. Vyjayanthi Rao and Michael Sorkin, New York: UR Books, 2019.  https://www.terreform.info/open-gaza

Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz, Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz, “Access all areas: the porosity of a hostile border”, Architectural Review (May 2019): 18-23. http://digitalissues.arplus.co.uk/2019/0519/index.html

Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz, “Citizenship Culture and the Transnational Environmental Commons,” Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment, eds. Karl Kusserow and Alan Braddock. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018.  https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300237009/natures-nation

Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz, “MEXUS | US-Mexico Border,” in Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet, eds. Angelika Fitz, Elke Krasne, and Architekturzentrum Wien (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2019). https://www.azw.at/en/articles/critical-care-architecture-and-urbanism-for-a-broken-planet/

Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz, “MEXUS: A Geography of Interdependence,” Catalogue Essay in Dimensions of Citizenship, ed. Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Ann Lui and Mimi Zeiger (Inventory Press), 2018. http://dimensionsofcitizenship.org/participants/estudio-teddy-cruz-plus-fonna-forman/

Press
“7 highlights from Venice Architecture Biennale are now in the soaring Wrightwood 659 gallery in Chicago”, Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune, March 12, 2019 https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kamin/ct-biz-venice-biennale-exhibit-kamin-0317-story.html

“Artists, Architects Reimagine the Possibilities of Design in ‘Dimensions of Citizenship’”, Marc Vitali, WTTW PBS News, Chicago, March 12, 2019 https://news.wttw.com/2019/03/12/artists-architects-reimagine-possibilities-design-dimensions-citizenship

2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, U.S. Pavilion: Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, Architectural Record Videos, August 31, 2018 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/videos?bctid=5829063330001

“Two worlds at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale”, David Neustein, The Monthly, July 2018https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2018/july/1530367200/david-neustein/two-worlds-16th-venice-architecture-biennale

“Federal government funds art project to erase US-Mexico border”, Martin Barillas, Spero News, June 11, 2018 https://www.speroforum.com/a/SFLZHVAJIK38/83480-Federal-government-funds-art-project-to-erase-USMexico-border#.XKvzDqZ7mL8

“DS+R and Studio Gang explore ‘Dimensions of Citizenship’ within Venice Biennale’s US Pavilion”, Philip Stevens, designboom, June 6, 2018 https://www.designboom.com/architecture/us-pavilion-dimensions-citizenship-venice-biennale-06-06-2018/

“With the world watching, US architects rebuke Trumpism at the Venice Biennale, Allyssia Alleyne, CNN International”, June 4, 2018 https://www.cnn.com/style/article/venice-biennale-2018-architecture-highlights/index.html

’Freespace’ Shows That Architects Must Retool Their Relationship to Power—and to the Biennale”, Phillip Denny, Metropolis Magazine, June 4, 2018 https://www.metropolismag.com/architecture/venice-architecture-biennale-review/

Highlights from the 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Tina Marinaki, Archisearch.Gr, June 2, 2018 https://www.archisearch.gr/press/highlights-la-biennale-di-venezia-2018/

“Shine a Light: At the Venice Architecture Biennale, U.S. Entries Tackle Citizenship, Visibility”, Jane Gayduk, ARTNEWS, June 1, 2018 http://www.artnews.com/2018/06/01/shine-light-venice-architecture-biennale-u-s-entries-tackle-citizenship-visibility/

“Presencia de México en la 16° Muestra Internacional de Arquitectura de la Bienal de Venecia”, Arch Daily, Pabellón de Mexico, June 1, 2018 https://www.archdaily.mx/mx/895485/presencia-de-mexico-en-la-16-degrees-muestra-internacional-de-arquitectura-de-la-bienal-de-venecia 

Notes from the 2018 Venice Biennale, Cathleen McGuinn and Beth Broome, Architectural Record, May 30, 2018 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13472-notes-from-the-2018-venice-biennale?v=preview

United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, e-flux architecture, May 30, 2018 https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/201483/dimensions-of-citizenship/

“A new U.S.-Mexico border? At the Venice Biennale, imagining a binational region called MEXUS”, Carolina A. Miranda, LA Times, May 23, 2018 https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-venice-biennale-teddy-cruz-fonna-forman-20180523-htmlstory.html

“Chicago in Venice: A first look at the U.S. pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale”, Chicago Tribune, Blair Kamin May 23, 2018 https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kamin/ct-ae-venice-architecture-biennale-kamin-0527-story.html

“At Venice Architecture Biennale, U.S. Pavilion exhibits ‘Dimensions of Citizenship’”, Hosted by Frances Anderton, KCRW Chicago Radio, May 22, 2018 https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/design-and-architecture/electric-jaguar-venice-biennale-rethinking-yamashiro/at-venice-architecture-biennale-u-s-pavilion-exhibits-dimensions-of-citizenship201d

A cross-border city? Apartments for San Diegans in Tijuana? How architects defy Trump’s wall, The Washington Post, Ian Volner, April 17, 2018. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/regardless-of-trumps-wall-talk-the-borders-always-been-blurry-to-these-architects/2018/04/09/7f659d7a-2170-11e8-86f6-54bfff693d2b_story.html?utm_term=.866cd529b3ab

“At Venice Architecture Biennale, U.S. pavilion tackles borders and citizenship: With no mention of the T word”, Curbed, Giovanna Dunmall, March 31, 2018 https://www.curbed.com/2018/5/31/17413290/venice-architecture-biennale-2018-us-pavilion

“New Details Announced for the U.S. Pavilion Exhibition at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale”, Ayda Ayoubi, Architect (Journal of the American Institute of Architects), March 14, 2018. http://www.architectmagazine.com/design/exhibits-books-etc/new-details-announced-for-the-us-pavilion-exhibition-at-the-2018-venice-architecture-biennale_o

“U.S. Pavilion at Biennale Architettura 2018 Announces Details of Architects’ Projects for Dimensions of Citizenship”, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, March 13, 2018
http://www.saic.edu/press/us-pavilion-announces-details-architects-projects-dimensions-citizenship

“First glimpse: The seven ‘Dimensions of Citizenship’ installations of the U.S. Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Biennale”, Justine Testado, Archinect, March 13, 2018. https://archinect.com/news/article/150054377/first-glimpse-the-seven-dimensions-of-citizenship-installations-of-the-u-s-pavilion-at-the-2018-venice-biennale

“U.S. Pavilion Announces Seven ‘Dimensions of Citizenship’ Projects for 2018 Venice Biennale”, Architectural Record, Miriam Sitz, March 12, 2018 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13291-us-pavilion-announces-seven-dimensions-of-citizenship-projects-for-2018-venice-biennale?v=preview

“Holy, holistic, resilient, rebellious and on-the-border: 5 recurring keywords at Venice Biennale 2018: 5 recurring keywords at Venice Biennale 2018. National pavilions respond to the FREESPACE main theme with visionary masterplans for Jerusalem Western Wall, a Trump defying US-Mexico border, the millennials’ occupation of Budapest’s Liberty bridge and more…”, Archipanic, May 30, 2018 http://www.archipanic.com/5-recurring-keywords-at-venice-biennale-2018/

“The UK, US, and Israel pavilions present powerful political critiques at the Venice Biennial”, Anne Quinto, Quartzy, May 29, 2018 https://qz.com/quartzy/1290638/the-uk-us-and-israel-pavilions-present-powerful-political-critiques-at-the-venice-biennial/

“U.S. Pavilion announces design teams for 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale,” Jackson Rollings, The Architect’s Newspaper, September 12, 2017. https://archpaper.com/2017/09/us-pavilion-announces-exhibitors-2018-venice-architecture-biennale/