Research Catalog

Title

Havana modern : critical readings in Cuban architecture / edited by Rubén Gallo.

Publication

• Mexico City : Arquine, SA de CV, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

Gallo, Rubén

Description

279 pages : illustrations (some color), plans, facsimiles; 27 cm

Summary

In the decades after World War II, from just prior to the revolution and into the mid-1980s, modernist architecture blossomed in Cuba, attracting both native talent and leading international architects from Europe. Havana Modern examines Cuban modernism's highlights with a wealth of archival materials, photos and new scholarship. Edited by Rubén Gallo--author of Mexican Modernity (2005), Freud's Mexico (2010) and Proust's Latin Americans (2014)--the volume is arranged in 10 chapters authored by current and former Princeton faculty members and graduate students. These essays, which arose from seminars organized by Gallo and historian Beatriz Colomina, examine Max Abramovitz's American Embassy; Richard Neutra's De Schultess House; Martín Domínguez Esteban, Miguel Gastón and Emilio del Junco's Radiocentro; Mies van Der Rohe's office building for Ron Barcardí S.A.; Vittorio Garatti, Roberto Gottardi and Ricardo Porro's National Art Schools for Havana; Mario Girona's Coppelia Ice-cream parlor and park; Vittorio Garatti, Hugo D'Acosta and Sergio Baroni's Cuban Pavilion at Expo 67; Antonio Quintana and Alberto Rodriguez's "Edificio Experimental"; and Aleksandr Grigorievich Rochegov's USRR Embassy. Havana Modern draws on history, politics, culture, literature and film to elucidate this outstandingly rich era in architectural history.

Alternative Title

Critical readings in Cuban architecture

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Architecture > Cuba > Havana > History
• Architecture > Cuba > Havana
• Architecture, Modern > 20th century
• Architecture > Cuba > La Havane > 20e siècle
• Architecture > Cuba > La Havane > Histoire
• Architecture > 20e siècle
• Architecture > Cuba > La Havane
• 21.62 history of architecture
• Architecture
• Architecture, Modern
• Buildings
• Architektur
• Bouwkunst
• Architecture > 20e siècle > Cuba > La Havane (Cuba)
• Havana (Cuba) > Buildings, structures, etc
• La Havane (Cuba) > Constructions
• Cuba > Havana
• Havanna

Genre/Form

• Kunstführer.
• History

Note

• Text by Andrés Jaque, Darja Filippova, Guillermo S. Arsuaga, Iván López Munuera, Bart-Jan Polman, Maria Garlock, Branko Glisic, Mark Wigley, Miguel Caballero, Sylvia Lavin, Terence Gower.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN

• 9786078880119
• 607888011X

LCCN

99995303735

OCLC

• on1380458938
• 1380458938
• SCSB-14692703

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries