Publisher's Synopsis
Cuba has a proud and complex history, combining influences from many population groups:
indigenous people, Spanish, North Americans, West Indians and Soviets. Further, the island has a long tradition as a tourist destination. So far, no comprehensive history of architecture exists which this book will provide. It will consist of 10 chapters spanning 500 years of Cuban architectural history:
I Pre-Columbian Cuba, Indigenous Settlements, and Vernacular Architecture
II Spanish Encounter and Conquest
III Early Colonial Architecture and the City
IV 18th-Century Grandeur
V Late-Colonial Architecture
VI Republican Architecture and Eclecticism, 1898-1934
VII Cuban Modernism
VIII Revolutionary Architecture and the Air of Romanticism
IX Preservation, the Special Period, and Tourism
X Cuban Architecture Globally
