While Havana's co­lo­nial man­si­ons have re­cently re­cei­ved world­wide at­ten­tion, the im­mense wealth of mo­dern ar­chi­tec­ture in Cuba has long been ne­glec­ted.

The first half of the twen­ti­eth cen­tury was a cul­tu­rally rich era for Cuba, a time in which the ar­chi­tects of the Mo­dern Mo­ve­ment sought to de­fine an iden­tity for this Ca­rib­bean na­tion. Howe­ver, wi­t­hin a few years after the re­vo­lu­tion of 1959, de­sign ideo­logy be­came al­lied with the mass-production aes­t­he­tic pro­mo­ted by the So­viets, and many Cuban ar­chi­tects fled to seek crea­tive and po­li­ti­cal free­dom ab­road.

The Ha­vana Guide is the first to re­co­gnize the enor­mous im­port­ance of Cuba's mo­dern ar­chi­tec­ture. It fea­tures over 200 struc­tu­res, in­clu­ding ho­tels, churches, thea­ters, so­cial clubs, and pri­vate re­si­den­ces. Street maps for all neigh­borhoods as well as ar­chi­val and con­tem­porary pho­to­graphs sup­ple­ment the texts. Also in­clu­ded is a his­tory of mo­dern ar­chi­tec­ture in Cuba. This is an es­sen­tial source book of mo­dern ar­chi­tec­ture for tra­ve­lers and ar­chi­tects alike.