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Making Home In Havana by Vincenzo Pietropaolo; Cecelia Elisabeth Burke Lawless is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Making Home In Havana about?

Havana is a city that rarely fails to captivate. But much of the unique beauty and culture of this historic city is rapidly disappearing. As Cuban society finds itself at a crossroads, Havana is more than ever a city on the edge, for although frozen in time as a consequence of Fidel Castros revolution, it has certainly not been well preserved. Time, climate, and neglect have eroded a rare architectural legacy, making the need to document this heritage even more pressing than ever before. Making Home in Havana is an elegant book of photographs and testimonies, recording, questioning, and evoking the meaning of place in particular, the meaning of home. The combination of fine photography and the words of residents of former palaces, humble apartments, and other dwellings offer us an irresistible portrait of Havana that might otherwise be lost forever. Vincenzo Pietropaolo and Cecelia Lawless have made numerous visits to Havana in order to fully understand and convey the essence of what home means to the inhabitants of the dwellings of the El Vedado and Centro Habana neighborhoods. Together, theyand weexplore how a building becomes a home through its human history as well as its arc

Author

Vincenzo Pietropaolo; Cecelia Elisabeth Burke Lawless

Publisher

New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813530949

Subjects

History, Travel, Humanities