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The introduction of the Railroad in southeastern Cuba due to the development of the mining and sugar industries in the 19th century has led to the presence of heritage made up of a railway system of cultural value, highlighting its architecture. This paper presents a theoreticalgraphic characterization of the railway sets developed in the region to raise their recognition and stimulate awareness for their conservation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research had the objective of making a characterization of the architecture of the Modern Movement of the former province of Las Villas (1946-1960), little studied to date. Files from the College of Architects, archival documents and periodicals were consulted to formulate working hypotheses. The most significant works, which make up the study sample, were corroborated in field work. The characterization includes the themes, authors and periods of greatest production. It delves into housing, according to predominant typologies, and in warehouses and shops, exponents of an incipient industrial architecture. Works of a singular nature that respond to different programs are also defined. Housing was the most relevant architectural theme of the period, accompanied by an important volume of industrial and commercial works, and other public buildings. The works were executed with state investment, or with private capital, mainly by local architects, affiliated with the College of Architects of Las Villas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Foreign students that do not speak Spanish in the faculty of architecture in Cuba receive Spanish classes for the first two years of their career. An essential content is to analyze different types of texts, specifically descriptive ones. The purpose of this paper is to present a teaching experience about the instruction of content description. The experience is centred on how the content related to the profession. The novel "Cecilia Valdés" from Cirilo Villaverde was chosen because it is an extraordinary picture of the XIX century and where students can learn the characteristics of social life in Cuba during that period. Students were greatly motivated by the experience and developed professional skills which are very important to future architects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A new reading the ancient Saint Claire of Assisi convent from the archaeological and historical approach This paper provides a new view of the history of the ancient Saint Claire of Assisi monastery located in Old Havana, headquarters of the National Center for Conservation, Restoration and Museology (CENCREM). The main goal of the research is to explain the historical evolution of the convent through the technological and constructive changes that took place in the building. The information collected until now has enhanced the knowledge about the history of the building in a more accurate way than historiography could do. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The history of funerary architecture in La Habana begin with the construction of the Cementerio General (1806), promoted by the basque bishop Juan José Díaz de Espada, first graveyard built in Hispanoamérica, after the Real Cédula of Carlos III dated on the third of April of 1787. For their contents, all municipalities must to construct municipal graveyards in remote sides from the urban areas and ended with the tradition of burying in churches and convents. This initial funerary area, today disappeared, was built by French architect Étienne- Sulpice Hallet, figure barely studied in the Cuban context. He introduced the neoclassicism in the Cuban architecture. This communication presents an introduction of the development of illustrate ideas in Cuba and the diffusion of the neoclassicism as dominant style in the funerary architecture of the island, during the firsts decades of XIX century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the architectonic production of this author in Santiago de Cuba city, it is clear the pure mastering of space. His constructions open to all directions letting the external space gets in the inner one, but when he opens his works to space, he also does it to light, two important aspects solved with a single means. We can find excellent examples of this in two works: The Theater Heredia in Santiago de Cuba (1987-91) and The Hotel Las Brujas (1973) in Mayarí, old province of Oriente, in this work the high technology expressive contents search was proved. Quintana obtains in both cases a synthesis between prefabricated structural technology, the natural setting dimension mastering and the cultural components that define Cuban environmental identity, and consequently, two groups scenically characterized by up to date technology image and the predominance of the direct link between architecture and nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, the contents of the class Project VI, of the fourth-year Architecture of Havana program, are described. Problems based on the lack of previous knowledge on the part of students regarding urban planning and the relationship of this lack of knowledge with design are also discussed. The process carried out during 2006-2007 is described and examples of completed work are presented. International exchange experiences and, finally, the most recent changes introduced into the class are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper is about the teorical and methodological conception on the necessity off the students' selection to the architecture carrier. The authors made reference about the essential aspects that had been the selection process. The research was defended as doctoral thesis in Psychology. Actually the results are using in the practical process of selection to the architecture carrier in our country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]