Field research into political, sociocultural and economic aspects of Havana done in the First Term and Unit Trip will inform the programmatic CONTENT of each STRIP-BLOCK proposals. Responding to the conflict generated by foreign private investments and local public governmental strategies in this city context, the SB proposals will respond with a certain programmatic composition A specific investigation on permanent and temporary housing related to local and tourist ways of living and everyday life in city streets will be done before composing the entrails of the SB. All research documents will be compiled in a SMALL UNIT BOOKLET.
– Iñaki Abalos: Good life : a guided visit to the houses of modernity, Barcelona : Editorial Gustavo Gili, 2001.
– Klaus Domer, Hans Drexler & Joachim Schultz-Granberg (Ed): Affordable living : housing for everyone, Berlin : Jovis, 2014
– Camila Piñeiro (Ed.): Cooperatives and socialism : a view from Cuba, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
– Richard Sennet: Together: The Rituals Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation, London : Penguin, 2013.
– Richard Sennet: Building and dwelling : ethics for the city, London : Allen Lane, 2018
– Bernard Tschumi, “Program”, in Architecture and Disjunction, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994.
– Andrea Colantonio, Robert B. Potter.: Urban tourism and development in the socialist state : Havana during the “special period”, Aldershot : Ashgate c2006
Photography:
– Robert. Polidori (Photos) Elizabeth Culbert; Eduardo Luis Rodríguez (Ed.): Havana, Göttingen : Steidl 2001
– Gianni Basso Vega, MG (Photos), Julio Cesar Perez Hernandez Angelika Taschen (ed): Inside Cuba, Koln : Taschen, 2006.
Havana Interiors