Authors on Architecture: Gallo/Caballero on Havana Modern
SAH/SCC Zoom Program
Sunday, January 28, 2024
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. Havana Modern: Critical Readings in Cuban Architecture (Arquine, 2023)
examines Cuban modernism’s highlights with a wealth of archival materials, photos,
and new scholarship.
Edited by Rubén
Gallo?who will be joined by contributor Miguel
Caballero?the book’s chapters are authored by current and former Princeton
faculty members and graduate students. These essays arose from seminars organized
by Gallo and historian Beatriz Colomina that examined a range of buildings,
including Max Abramovitz’s American Embassy; Richard Neutra’s De Schultess House;
Vittorio Garatti, Hugo D’Acosta, and Sergio Baroni’s Cuban Pavilion at Expo 67;
Mies van Der Rohe’s office building for Ron Barcardí; and Aleksandr Grigorievich
Rochegov’s USSR Embassy, among others. Havana Modern draws on history, politics,
culture, literature, and film to elucidate this outstandingly rich era in architectural
history.
Gallo/Caballero on Havana: Sunday, January 28,
2024, 1-2:30 PM PST; $5; go to www.sahscc.org and pay via PayPal or mail
in order form with check; Zoom
link sent upon registration.
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