Title & Author:

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

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Mexico City : Arquine, SA de CV, 2023.

Description:

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

Notes:
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-279).
Havana: modernism and revolution / Rubén Gallo -- Havana case study: the American embassy / Terence Gower -- Psyches and specifications: Richard Neutra in Havana / Sylvia Lavin -- Revolt in Radiocentro: the Sample Bar, Caignet's annoying silences, and Batista's radio-execution / Andrés Jaque -- Berlin to Havana; Santiago to Berlin: Mie's office building for CIA, Ron Bacardí, SA, Santiago de Cuba / Bart-Jan Polman -- Effeminate architecture: dance, homosexuality, and literature in Havana's national art schools / Miguel Caballero -- Coppelia: revolutionary ice creams / Iván L. Munuera -- Exporting the revolution: the Cuban pavilion at Expo 67, Montreal / Guillermo S. Arsuaga -- Havana syndrome: retransmitting the "Edificio Experimental" / Mark Wigley -- Architecture of revolutionary belatedness: the USSR embassy in Havana, Cuba / Darja Filippova -- Art projects -- Cinemas / Carlos Garaicoa -- Soviet embassy: los carpinteros / Marco Castillo -- Revolution and architecture / Lisa Schmidt-Colinet, Alexander Schmoeger, and Florian Zeyfang.

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 Bacardí 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 USSR Embassy. Havana Modern draws on history, politics, culture, literature and film to elucidate this outstandingly rich era in architectural history"-- Publisher's description.

ISBN:

9786078880119 paperback
607888011X paperback

Subject:

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

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Gallo, Rubén, editor.

Critical readings in Cuban architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318885
Call No.: 318885
Copy: 1
Status: External loan