UM Classical Cuba LEcture, March 21, 2012, 6pm

CLASSICAL CUBA LECTURE BY
MADELINE DE LA CARIDAD MENENDEZ GARCIA
WEDNESDAY THE 21ST AT SOA

Dear Faculty and Staff:

A special visitor will join us tomorrow afternoon to lecture on The House in Habana: Domestic Typologies in the Historic Center.

Dr. Madeline Menendez, Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad de La Habana Colegio Universitario San Geronimo, will speak to faculty, students and staff of the School of Architecture Wednesday, March 21 in Glasgow Hall from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.

The event is being sponsored by the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art, Florida Chapter; St. Augustine Baracoa Friendship Association; the American Institute of Architects; Fundacion Amistad; Flagler College; and the University of Miami School of Architecture.

Dr. Menendez, who has been involved as an architect in conservation efforts in La Habana with both the CENCREM as well as the Office of the Historian of the City of La Habana and is presently a professor at the Colegio Universitario de San Geronimo, will lecture on Neo-Classical Architecture in Habana in the XIX and XX Centuries. From the end of the 1700’s to the early republic in the first half of the XX Century, Neo-Classical Architecture was perhaps the predominant architectural style in Cuba and would yield excellent examples in the related fields of Urban Design, Interior Design, Craftsmanship and Landscape Architecture. In the XX Century, Neo Classical Architecture in Cuba parallels architecture practice in the United States, in the work of such offices as McKim Mead and White and Schutze and Weaver for instance, and is a living testimony of a shared cultural patrimony between our two countries.