This essay is an analysis about massive construction and prefabricated systems with the focus on Cuba during the first years of Revolution until now. Our main goal is to explain the variety of formal and structural alternatives found by architects and city planners as an answer to the challenge of constructing big projects with low resources. Besides we mean to talk about how these alternatives have changed through the years depending on the social, political and economical context, and their advantages and disadvantages among others.

the article was written by Sebastian Gubernatis, Claudia Ixchel

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