A Better World Award

william cordova is an interdisciplinary cultural practitioner working with site-specific installations. His work is based on a creative engagement with architecture, geometry, and history. These are essential components that have continuously shaped his worldview. cordova is interested in the fundamental origins of abstraction, including cultural encoding and non-linear narratives, from the African, Andean, and Asian diaspora point of view, originating in Peru, where he was born and raised. cordova’s work continues to invest in this cultural, ethnic, and Racial synthesis, as a method of disrupting, challenging, and reassessing these influences on the history and practice of Western secular architecture, modernism, and theory. It has been a continuous process of illuminating and connecting historical evidence of ritual labor and its theory to contemporary examples. It is an attempt to reconsider how the abstracted evidence of cultural matter plays a large role in the modern world.