Varadero. El valor patrimonial de su Arquitectura

• Autores: Noriel Santamaría Sánchez Matanzas
• Localización: Conservación de centros históricos en Cuba / Lourdes Gómez Consuegra (ed. lit.), Olimpia Niglio (ed. lit.), Carlos Sambricio Rivera Echegaray (pr.), Vol. 2, 2015, ISBN 978-88-548-8228-7, págs. 703-725
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • The resort town of Varadero, founded in 1887, was consolidated during the early twentieth century where wooden architecture played a key role in merging vernacular traditions and foreign stylistic influences.

    Then comes the stonework architecture, which achieved notoriety thanks to the work of masons and architects. This argument between cultured and popular, was authentic responses to economic, functional, social and stylistic constraints of the time. Works of great build quality and aesthetics arise from the neocolonial Cuban proposals to the Modern Movement in the 1940s and 1950s, as continued use of stonework but with further refinement of the methods, in accordance with its precepts and practice in Cuba.

    The most important aspects of each type or architectural trend are discussed in a historical journey, that allows us to reflect on its heritage values and their significance within the Cuban context until the 1960s.