Revolutionary Architecture: How Cuba’s National Arts Schools Were Disgraced And Reclaimed

Just after the Revolution, Fidel hit on the idea of repurposing a posh suburban golf course as the new national training ground for artists. “[The architects’] design, a spiral of Catalan-vaulted rooms and covered passageways, was, like many acts of revolutionary architecture, a search for new and organic forms.” Alas, before it was fully built, the design was found to be ideologically impure and abandoned – but only for a couple of decades …