Hecho
a Mano is a meditative examination of the hand-made domestic architecture
of Tijuana's rapidly expanding working-class communities. These exurban communities
are subject (in the words of urban theorist Teddy Cruz) to the vicissitudes
of social contingency—for there is little money, no regulation, and
little in the way of governmentally sanctioned infrastructure. Residents,
thus, must build their own environments with compelling improvisation and
the available materials at hand—an epic and heroic struggle to join
the middle class. (Click here to
watch the video.)
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