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                                      style="font-style: normal;
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                                    <br>
                                    Cuban Visiting Scholar
                                    <br>
                                    DRCLAS, Harvard University<!--[if gte mso 9]></p><![endif]--></p>
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                                    <br>
                                    Lee Cott
                                    <br>
                                    Bruner/Cott Architects and Planners<!--[if gte mso 9]></p><![endif]--></p>
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                                    Wednesday, October 26, 5pm*
                                    <br>
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                                    DRCLAS, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge
                                    St, Room S-30<!--[if gte mso 9]></p><![endif]--></p>
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                                      style="font-style: italic;
                                      font-weight: normal;">About the
                                      Lecture:</em>
                                    <br>
                                    When the Modern masters left Cuba
                                    after the 1959 revolution, young
                                    architects were able to maintain
                                    good quality architecture, though
                                    only for some time. Since then,
                                    architects have worked for a salary
                                    from the government – not enough to
                                    make a living, but safely tenured.
                                    Experimentation and creativeness
                                    were severely handicapped in the
                                    1970s and 1980s by a strong
                                    centralization resulting in
                                    repetitive projects with heavy
                                    prefabrication. In addition, the
                                    recent new investments – bland in
                                    design – are meant to capture hard
                                    currency. New good contemporary
                                    designs are needed to demonstrate
                                    that profit is not opposed to
                                    architectural quality. A recent
                                    official statement estimated that
                                    1.3 million state workers are not
                                    needed –around one-fifth of the
                                    country’s labor force. This calls
                                    for an opening for self-employment
                                    and small businesses, which in turn
                                    may increase private construction
                                    and create real jobs for thousands
                                    of architects. In this lecture,
                                    Professor Coyula addresses the
                                    challenges and opportunities for the
                                    future of architecture in Cuba.<!--[if gte mso 9]></p><![endif]--></p>
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                                      style="font-style: italic;
                                      font-weight: normal;">Special
                                      Video Screening:</em>
                                    <br>
                                    For those planning to attend
                                    Professor Coyula’s lecture, you are
                                    cordially invited to join us at <strong
                                      style="font-style: normal;
                                      font-weight: bold;">4:30pm</strong>
                                    for a special screening of the short
                                    documentary video, <em
                                      style="font-style: italic;
                                      font-weight: normal;">Hablemos de
                                      la Habana Vieja</em> (<em
                                      style="font-style: italic;
                                      font-weight: normal;">Let's Talk
                                      About Old Havana</em>). The video,
                                    commissioned by the Office of the
                                    City Historian of Havana and made by
                                    an international team of film-makers
                                    and urban planners, explores the
                                    aspirations of the citizens and the
                                    experts of Old Havana for the future
                                    of their city - including how to
                                    address its housing crisis and
                                    realize its incredible economic and
                                    cultural assets.<!--[if gte mso 9]></p><![endif]--></p>
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                                      style="font-style: italic;
                                      font-weight: normal;">About the
                                      Speaker:</em>
                                    <br>
                                    Mario Coyula Cowley is a Cuban
                                    architect, urban designer and
                                    critic. He is an authority on the
                                    history and preservation of Havana,
                                    and he received the National Prize
                                    of Architecture in 2001. He is
                                    former director of the CUJAE’s
                                    School of Architecture and of the
                                    Architecture and Urban Planning
                                    Department of Havana, as well as of
                                    the Group for the Integral
                                    Development in Havana. He is also
                                    co-author of the book <em
                                      style="font-style: italic;
                                      font-weight: normal;">Havana: Two
                                      Faces of the Antillean Metropolis</em>
                                    (London and Chapel Hill: University
                                    of North Carolina, 2002) with
                                    Roberto Segre and Joseph L.
                                    Scarpaci, Jr., and most recently,
                                    the fiction book, <em
                                      style="font-style: italic;
                                      font-weight: normal;">Catalina</em>
                                    (Sevilla: Editorial Renacimiento,
                                    2011). Dr. Coyula returns to Harvard
                                    after having served as a Robert F.
                                    Kennedy Visiting Professor from
                                    2002-2003 at the Graduate School of
                                    Design at Harvard University.<!--[if gte mso 9]></p><![endif]--></p>
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