Silvia Ros

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Estadio Jose Marti / Jose Marti Stadium

Apartamento Reynaldo Cue / Reynaldo Cue Apartment Building

Apartamento Evangelina de Vidana / Evangelina de Vidana Apartment Building

Casa Eugenio Leal / Eugenio Leal Home

Liga Contra la Ceguera / Anti Blindness League

Casa de la Comunidad Hebrea / Hebrew Community Center

Heladeria Coppelia / Coppelia Ice Cream

Edificio Solimar / Solimar Building

Apartamento Santeiro / Santeiro Building

Apartamento Isabel y Olga Farfante / Isabel and Olga Farfante Apartment Building

Hotel Capri / Capri Hotel

Escuela Nacional de Arte / National School of Art

Banque Pedroso / Pedroso Bank

Casa Eutimio Falla Bonet / Eutimio Falla Bonet House

Casa Timothy James Ennis / Timothy James Ennis Home

Cuban Modernist Architecture in Havana

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Within the last thirty years, the history of modern Cuban architecture has received special attention in Cuba, Latin America, and increasingly in the United States. This project focuses on the Modernist generation of architects— the so-called Generación de los Cincuenta, active from the late 1930s until 1959—and extols the national and international importance of their architecture and urban works under four headings: the modern Cuban house, the Modern City from Forestier to Sert, the touristic development, and the Synthesis of the Arts. Seen comprehensively, those works embody the challenges that the architectural avant-garde faced to combine Cuban identity and traditions—the three P’s: patio, persiana, portal— with the tenets of international modernism, in a country that was late to embrace modernity, increasingly under American influence, and on the verge of revolutionary changes.

Public Project

Date of Work Aug 2015 - Ongoing

Updated Jan 2022

Location Havana, Cuba

Topics Architecture, Cuba, Design, Havana, Historical, Modernist, Modernist architecture, Photography, Spotlight

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