The André Voisin Technological Institute of Soils and Fertilizers of Güines: A Forgotten Work by Vittorio Garatti
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Vittorio Garatti, André Voisin Technological Institute of Soils and Fertilizers, Modern Movement, Works for educationAbstract
During the 1960s, Cuba experienced a broad construction process in response to the Revolutionary Government’s social programs, including educational ones. Many of these buildings are recorded in the specialized literature, but there are still little-known works, such as the André Voisin Technological Institute of Soils and Fertilizers in Güines, by the Italian architect Vittorio Garatti. This relevant example of the period is currently in ruins, so this research had the objective of documenting and characterizing the work with the support of theoretical and empirical methods, interviews, finterviews, and field and archival work. The results provide a wealth of documentary information about the complex, its execution process and its authors, and a virtual reconstruction of the complex, which allows us to know the values of the work as a relevant, significant and unique contribution of its author within the panorama of the Cuban Modern Movement of its time.
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