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Heriberto Duverger author of urban plans and researcher of the modern history of Havana, mainly in the recovery of the JCN Forestier, impated on Wednesday, May 10, at 19.30h in the Palacio del Condestable of Pamplona, a lecture on "Architectural Heritage in Cuba".

In his speech at the Biennial of Latin American Architecture at the University of Navarra, Heriberto Duverger, started with the great works of architecture that emerged in Cuba after the triumph of the Revolution. "Those years of the "Magnolucion" coincide with those that our graduating class of students used to become architects. Most of those projects, designed by professors at School of Architecture in Havana, required our participation."

The exile of technicians made it possible for architecture students to act in that scenario, sometimes as simple draftsmen and other times as experienced assistants to architects. "The immoderation of the ideas of those times produced works outside the scale of a country, mounted on an island, in pursuit of modernization from end to end".

The National Schools of Art, begun in 1960 and still unfinished, made it possible for many young people to begin a working life parallel to their student life, on the threshold of their twenties. "These works, whose projects were carried out by a Cuban architect and two Italians, are a monument to creativity, before which it has been difficult, to pass by during all these years". He also stated that "the exhibition of "Unfinished Spaces" provided reasons to debate on May 10".

Heriberto Duverger

The Cuban architect, graduate by the University of Havana in 1966, practiced for 26 years in Cuba, specifically in the specialization program of Urban Plans of the high school of Physical Planning, as well as designer of furniture for popular housing and projects of school architecture works and other urban services. At the same time he developed programs of study of research in the modern history of the City of Havana, centered on the recovery of JCN Forestier and his urban beautification plan (1925).

Since 1993 she has been working in Seville, as publisher of publications specialized in Architecture derived from the International Cooperation Plan of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport of the board of Andalusia.