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Cuba's post-revolution architecture offers a blueprint for how to build more with less

  • Written by M. Wesam Al Asali, Global Fung Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University
imageBuilders construct experimental vaults of brick and cement blocks in Santiago de Cuba in December 1960.Centro de Documentación, Empresa RESTAURA, Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad de La Habana, CC BY-ND

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