Skyscrapers in Havana
How the Cuban Revolution Reimagined Modern Architecture
Skyscrapers in Havana
How the Cuban Revolution Reimagined Modern Architecture
320 pages | 107 halftones | 7 x 9 1/2
Architecture: History of Architecture
History: Latin American History
Literature and Literary Criticism: Romance Languages
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Radiocentro—1948
(I) Missed Encounters with Cuban Modernity: Le Corbusier in Havana
2. The FOCSA—1956
(II) Missed Encounters with Cuban Modernity: Lee Harvey Oswald in Havana
3. Hotel Capri—1957
(III) Missed Encounters with Cuban Modernity: Niemeyer in Havana
4. Havana Riviera—1957
(IV) Missed Encounters with Cuban Modernity: Philip Johnson in Havana
5. Habana Hilton—1958
(V) Missed Encounters with Cuban Modernity: Buckminster Fuller in Havana
6. The National Art Schools—1961
Epilogue: The Death of Cuban Modernity
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index