- The bunker This sequence was shot in an abandoned military bunker in Cuba. It was presented to us as destined to one of the infamous nuclear missiles of the 1962 crisis, although we have no elements to confirm this hypothesis. It was nevertheless a sinister and fascinating place, huge enough to contain a big launching pad. The […]
- Jardín de los afectos The sculture garden made of recycled scrap – as almost everything else in Cuba – in the Micro X (tenth district) of Alamar, La Habana del Este, is the work of the artist Hector Gallo. Photographed in 2006 by ogino:knauss
- Edificio GIRÓN This 17 floors brutalist complex was the first coup de foudre in La Habana. Built in 1967 in the Vedado neighbourhood, the building faces the sea on the Malecon boulevard. It was designed in 1967 by Antonio Quintana and Alberto Rodríguez. It was revolutionary from a construction point of view since it was the first building to use […]
- La Habana/Alamar_INT/EXT
- Alamar – La Habana It is the first step, a sort of number zero: “Doble Forza” is a pilot already realised with low budget and technical standard. Alamar, is a new city built in the 1970s in the outskirts of La Habana, mostly with rudimental prefabricated technologies inherited by the soviets; it has been put in place through self-costruction […]
- Alamar diario Disorientamento. Il paesaggio è spiazzante, le tipiche edificazioni ripetitive della periferia sono stemperate in una atmosfera rurale caraibica. Gli spazi vuoti e normalmente irrisolti, qui diventano giardini, orti, estensioni di lamiera. Alla serialità delle architetture risponde la personalizzazione attraverso il lavorio quotidiano degli abitanti. Le inferriate alle finestre di ferro battuto o di tondino da […]
- La Habana INT/EXT March 2006. Invited to attend to the Novena Bienal de La Habana, we spent five weeks in Cuba in spring 2006, preparing a live media performance to be presented in the context of the international art event. That provided the opportunity to explore a different incarnation of the late modernist periphery, which is a […]