Experimental Housing in Puerto Rico and Cuba: Crossings Between Form Innovation and Traditional Habitation

The architectural practice that constituted modernarchitecture in the islands of Puerto Rico and Cubaduring the years 1964-1969 developed hand in handwith socio-political and economic reformations. Atthe heart of these processes, innovative experimentalsocial housing became the raison d’etre of urban,scientific and technological research. Even thoughmany ingenious projects proposed by local as well asforeign architects were praised for their technologicaland form making innovations, they failed as modelsfor future housing developments. Following MartinHeidegger’s Building Dwelling Thinking, the crisisof these experimental dwellings revealed thedisarticulated relation between housing form andsocially shared modes of dwelling and habitation.

Volume Editors
Urs Peter Flueckiger & Victoria McReynolds

ISBN
978-1-944214-16-6