With the historic lifting of the Cuban embargo creating an instant rush to visit the long-cloistered island nation, a rush for rediscovery will bring all manner of Cuban art, culture and design to the fore.
While it's not always acknowledged as such, Cuban architecture, especially modernist buildings, showcase an eclectic and exciting blend of styles, from the Spanish and Art Deco buildings that preceded them to the modern and Brutalist influences that came during the postwar period.
— curbed.com
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I was expecting a "virtual tour" but of course it was just tiny pictures on a map--nice job Google. Internet journalism and architecture are so bad together. Yay someone saw the Latin American show and they want to tell us about what they learned.
@Lightperson to be fair it seems like it wasn't the MoMA show and more as the article says the "historic lifting of the Cuban embargo" that was the inspiration. Although, to be doubly fair, the embargo hasn't been lifted just the yet, only congress can technically do that...
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