Talk:Instituto Superior de Arte

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The ISA may only have opened in 1976, but the buildings main were from the 1960s and are architecturally important. We need something about their history and significance.

"At the beginning of the sixties on a terrain that was part of the exclusive Country Club, Fidel Castro commissioned the construction of a Centre dedicated to the teaching and development of the arts. As the U.S embargo already started to affect the island, the Italian architects Garatti and Gottardi and the Cuban Porro were obliged to economize. They decided to adapt their selection of materials to the very nature of the site. Catalan bricks and vaults offer the fundament of its interlacing galleries, cupolas and staircases imposing a strong red contrast to its green surroundings. The five different schools which comprise the Centre (modern dance, ballet, plastic arts, dramatic arts and painting) are situated in independent locations, parts of an harmonic complex. The result not only escapes defined tendencies, creating an individual, faultless and elegant style but raises this construction into one of the most commented buildings of the XX century. An absolute “must-see” to a cultivated traveller. Calle 120 Nº 1110 e/ 9ª y 13, Cubanacán. Playa. La Habana" http://www.canalcubano.com/seccion2.asp?seccion=9&ciudad=&buscar=&desplazamiento=0 http://www.antillania.com/Lost_art_schools_of_cuba.htm -- Beardo (talk) 05:28, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]