While Havana's colonial mansions have recently received worldwide attention, the immense wealth of modern architecture in Cuba has long been neglected. The first half of the twentieth century was a culturally rich era for Cuba, a time in which the architects of the Modern Movement sought to define an identity for this Caribbean nation. However, ...
For five hundred years, Havana's siren song has lured pirates, aristocrats, and revolutionaries. The city today is a shipwreck of history, grandeur, and decay; a place where the exotic and the familiar, wealth and poverty, pride and loss, past and present have all been fused into one unique and unimaginable world. In richm elegiac images, ...
This book re-examines management theory 'after Globalization'. Combining key names and studies from across the world, it explores the local realities that resist universal theories and that permeate the daily lives of practising managers. The book provides a comprehensive and critical reflection on the widely documented phenomenon of globalization ...
Se presenta por primera vez los temas significantes de la arquitectura de La Habana. La era de los modernistas es bien documentado y ilustrado tal como su mayor protagonista Mario Ramanach. La obra concentra en los edificios construidos antes de 1959.
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Carlos Venegas, Narciso G. Menocal, Jose Gelabert-Navia, Jean-Francois Lejeune, Zoila L. Becali, Helen L. Kohen, Juan A. Molina, Eduardo Luis Rodriguez, Maria Luisa Lobo Montalvo
The Secret Legacy and Innovation of Cuban Modernist Architecture. Written by leading historian and Havana-based architect, Eduardo Luis Rodriguez introduces a body of work virtually unknown outside of Cuba. This book documents the breadth and innovation of architectural projects by the Cuban government 1959-1969. Cuba's distinct political, ...
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