Chapter 15: Havana Modern - Havana Before Castro

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# Havana Before Castro by Peter Moruzzi

### When Cuba Was a Tropical Playground

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#### Chapter 15

## Havana Modern

In addition to Havana’s well-known colonial buildings, the city’s stunning architectural heritage includes a Havana Modernism that has not been as widely publicized or appreciated. In defining this new architectural vocabulary, talented local designers applied European Modernism’s International Style tenets to the unique history, culture, setting, and climate of their island nation in creating a distinctive Cuban Modernism. Happily, most of these buildings remain extant and a list of the author’s top 25 personal favorites provides a self-guided tour of Havana’s most compelling specimens for contemporary visitors.

See "Then & Now" comparison photos of Max Borges Jr.'s (architect) Nunez-Galvez Tomb (1957 and 2007).