Havana modern : critical readings in Cuban architecture. / txt
- First edition
- 279 p. : ill. ; col. ; facs. ; plans ; portrait ; 27 cm book
Texts by Guillermo S. Arsuaga, Miguel Caballero, Marco Castillo, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Darja Filippova, Rubén Gallo, Carlos Garaicoa, Terence Gower, Andrés Jaque, Sylvia Lavin, Iván L. Munuera, Bart-Jan Polman, Lisa Schmidt-Colinet, Alexander Schmoeger, Mark Wigley, Florian Zeyfang
Havana Modernism and Revolution Rubén Gallo 6 -- 1 Havana Case Study: The American Embassy Terence Gower 26 -- 2 Psyches and Specifications: Richard Neutra in Havana Sylvia Lavin 50 -- 3 Revolt in Radiocentro: The Sample Bar, Caignet’s Annoying Silences, and Batitas’s Radio-Execution Andrés Jaque 70 -- 4 Berlin to Havana; Santiago to Berlin: Mies’s Office Building for CIA. Ron Bacardí, SA, Santiago de Cuba Bart-Jan Polman 84 -- 5 Effeminate Architecture: Dance, Homosexuality, and Literature in Havana’s National Art Schools Miguel Caballero 108 -- 6 Coppelia: Revolutionary Ice Creams Iván L. Munuera 128 -- 7 Exporting the Revolution: The Cuban Pavilion at Expo 67, Montreal Guillermo S. Arsuaga 146 -- 8 Havana Syndrome: Retransmitting the “Edificio Experimental” Mark Wigley 170 -- 9 Architecture of Revolutionary Belatedness: The USSR Embassy Havana, Cuba Darja Filippova 212 -- 10 Art Projects 236 -- The Havana Project Coop Himmelb(l)au 238 -- Cinemas Carlos Garaicoa 244 -- Soviet Embassy: Los Carpinteros Marco Castillo 252 -- Revolution and Architecture Lisa Schmidt-Colinet, Alexander Schmoeger and Florian Zeyfang 256 --
"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"-- Publisher's description
9786078880119 607888011X
Architecture and history. Architecture Architecture -- 20th century. Architecture--History--Cuba Havana Architecture, Modern Architecture, Modern--20th century Buildings