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Article: Out of the jungle.(View)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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The mythical Cuban art schools (AR January 2000) are at long last being restored by the original team of architects. The idea for five art schools came to Fidel Castro and Che Guevara when they were playing a round of golf at the Havana Country Club shortly after the 1959 Revolution. They would build art schools for the poor not only of Cuba but of the Third World in the idyllic grounds of the Club, which had previously been open only to the dictator Battista and his aristocratic gangster friends.
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There were to be five schools: for drama, music, the plastic arts, modern dance and ballet. Three young ...