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Cuban Visiting Scholar
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DRCLAS, Harvard University<!--[if gte mso 9]></p><![endif]--></p>
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Lee Cott
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Bruner/Cott Architects and Planners<!--[if gte mso 9]></p><![endif]--></p>
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Wednesday, October 26, 5pm*
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DRCLAS, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge
St, Room S-30<!--[if gte mso 9]></p><![endif]--></p>
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Lecture:</em>
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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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Video Screening:</em>
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For those planning to attend
Professor Coyula’s lecture, you are
cordially invited to join us at <strong
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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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Speaker:</em>
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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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