Review: Cuban Modernism: Mid-Century Architecture, 1940-1970

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Book Review| March 01 2023 Review: Cuban Modernism: Mid-Century Architecture, 1940-1970 Victor Deupi and Jean-François Lejeune Cuban Modernism: Mid-Century Architecture 1940–1970 Basel: Birkhäuser, 2021, 344 pp., 108 color and 195 b/w illus. $60 (cloth), ISBN 9783035616415 Erica N. Morawski Erica N. Morawski Pratt Institute Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2023) 82 (1): 93–94. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2023.82.1.93 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Erica N. Morawski; Review: Cuban Modernism: Mid-Century Architecture, 1940-1970. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 March 2023; 82 (1): 93–94. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2023.82.1.93 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search Although scholarship on twentieth-century Cuban architecture has continued to grow over the past few decades, the topic is by no means exhausted. Victor Deupi and Jean-François Lejeune’s Cuban Modernism contributes to this literature by striving for comprehensiveness. This approach lends it the quality of a survey, especially by comparison to the recent publications on which it relies, but the same wide coverage makes it accessible reading for both newcomers to Cuban architectural history and veterans of the field.1 While highlighting structures desperately in need of more scholarly attention, the book reveals how much work remains to be done, especially regarding the debates around post-1959 architecture designed after the Cuban Revolution and how the narrative spanning the architecture of pre- and post-1959 is constructed. Each of the book’s chapters is either thematic or typological, and all cover roughly the same three decades, from the 1940s through the 1960s. The introduction... You do not currently have access to this content.