One of the "Nifty Fifty": NY Times

Most architects live to build. Teddy Cruz lives to lay the economic, social and political groundwork for buildings — specifically, housing and small-scale commercial centers for minority communities, most of them in the rapidly growing area between San Diego, Calif., and Tijuana, Mexico, where, Cruz said, “some of the richest real estate in the world is 20 minutes away from some of the poorest.”