Design and Architecture

Cuban architecture, Lewis MacAdams

Hosted by Frances Anderton Nov. 29, 2016

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Photo: Neon returns to Havana (Vern Evans, Havana Light Tour)

From this Episode:

Castro and Cuban architecture

During Fidel Castro's decades-long control of Cuba, development in Havana was largely stalled, leaving a historic city intact but in disrepair.

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Filling the shoes of Lewis MacAdams

When engineers in the late 1930s conceived the idea of encasing a 51-mile sprawling waterway in concrete it made sense -- two massive storms had just caused highly...

14 min

Credits

Host:

Frances Anderton

Producers:

Frances Anderton, Avishay Artsy