In Havana, Cuba architecture is a revelation. The built environment bears the imprint of several architectural movements while bearing witness to the tumultuous political and economic eruptions that define Cuba as no where else. Nearly every block is a mix of store fronts and residential space. Like a well-shuffled deck of cards swept across a table, any given street will display a striking variety of formal and stylistic gestures, their differences lessened by the passage of time.
Habaneros make their way among these buildings and narrow streets that they know like their own skin. The sidewalk vendors, uniformed school kids, the administrators, the hustlers trying to con a few pesos out of thin air all seem to emanate like spirits (Orishas) from the musty walls and doorways, the colonnades, the grand, oft-broken buildings.
I too drift among the buildings and streets of this dazzling, crumbling city- trying to see the place, it’s signals and layers, trying to make a picture that will resonate at the same pitch as the scene it's extracted from.
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2015 El Capitolio, Architect: Eugenio Rayneri Piedra (1929)
2014 Havana Vieja
2015 El Centro Havana
2011 Theater Bldg, Paseo de Marti
2011 Ricardo Mira, Obispo, Havana Vieja (1941)
2011 Cine Yara, Architect: Junco, Gaston and Dominquez, El Vedado
2014 Obispo #467, Havana Vieja
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2015. El Centro Havana
2014. El Centro Havana
2015 Havana Vieja
2015 El Centro Havana
2015 El Centro Havana
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2014 Parque Central
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2015 El Centro Havana
2015 Avenida Salvador Allende near Municipal Hospital, Centro Havana
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2015 Centro Havana
2012 Calle San Juan de Dios, Havana Vieja
2014 Paseo de Marti, Centro Havana
2013 Universidad de Habana, El Vedado
2014 Universidad de Habana
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2010 Manuel Copado, Soledad #205 (1944)
2012 Centro Havana
2014 Havana Vieja
2011 Havana Vieja
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2011 Hotel Inglaterra (1875) El Centro Havana
2014 Parque, Havana Vieja
2012 Architect: Max Borges Recio, #1016 San Lazaro, El Centro (1944)
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2011 Arroyo y Menendez, Espada #5-7, (1944)
2011 Cine Milan, El Vedado
2012 Convent, Calle Sol and Cuba, Havana Vieja (1643)
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2013 El Centro Havana
2015 El Centro Havana
2012 El Centro Habana
2013 Calle Monserrate, Havana Vieja
2011 Bacardi Bldg, Havana Vieja
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2012 215 Neptuno, El Centro Havana
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2014 El Centro Havana
2015 El Centro Havana
2011 Estacion Central, Havana Vieja
2014 El Centro Havana
2010 Hotel St John's, El Vedado
2012 Gas Station
2014 Capri Hotel, El Vedado
2011 El Vedado
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2015 El Centro Havana
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2014 Palacio de la Rumba, El Centro Havana
2012 Havana Vieja
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2012 El Centro Havana
2014 El Centro Havana
2010 El Centro (1917)
2011 204 Paseo Marti, Havana Vieja
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