Cuban Architecture Lectures, July 11 & August 22 @ Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA)

CUBAN ART DECO- lecture by Mitzi March Mogul (Historic Preservation Consultant)
Art Deco is the dominant style of Cuban architecture and reflects it’s history as a cosmopolitan, sophisticated society. This presentation will take you on a tour of the island’s Art Deco architecture and examine it’s social, cultural, and political contexts.
Sunday July 11, 2:00-4:00 pm
Edificio Bacardi, Havana dates from 1930 and shows a close kinship to New York’s art deco towers.  It’s a fantastic construction with polychrome ceramic decorations.  The tower was one of the first skyscrapers in Havana and is crowned with the Bacardí bat, that is also used as a weathercock.

CUBAN MODERNISM- lecture by Rosa Lowinger (Author & Architectural Conservator)
Spare, geometric, and light as air, Cuban architecture of the 1940s and 1950s arose directly out of the international modernist style. By looking at buildings such as Max Borges’ Tropicana Cabaret as well as examples of domestic architecture, we will see how Cuba’s use of the international style was directly related to its political and social milieu at the time.
Sunday August 22, 2:00-4:00 pm
The Edificio Focsa (Fomentos de Obrasy Constructiones Sociedad Anonima) designed by architect Ernesto Gomez Sampera (1956) represents Havana’s booming economy and foreign influence at the time.
Members $10, Non-Members $15 Seniors/Students $10
Co-produced by Humberto Capiro and MoLAA
Classical Latin Productions hcapiro@aol.com 310-927-2852
For tickets: RSVP 562-437-1689 or online at www.molaa.org to calendar
Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA)
628 Alamitos Avenue, Long Beach, CA  90802
Phone 562.437.1689 Fax 562.437.7043
info@molaa.org

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