Camagüey, Feb 4th. - The opening day of the Architecture, Design and Urbanism Workshop, of the Project Sub-Directorate of the Office of the City Historian, took place this Monday at the Santa Cecilia Convention Center.
The event, in its second edition, dedicated to the Art Deco, began with the opening words of José Rodríguez Barreras, director of the Office, who considered the need to train new professionals in specialties essential for the conservation of a heritage city such as Camagüey.
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The scientific program opened with the lecture Art Deco does not exist, by the doctor architect Henry Mazorra Acosta, who after long years of research on the subject holds a critical stance towards the theory and history of that style, based on the clear similarities between the so-called Art Deco, most representative in America, and the Art Nouveau of Europe.
Later a tour of the city became in the visit to buildings that are part of the set of works with characteristics of art deco, to end in the primary school Josué País, former Champagnat College, one of the most representative entirely of this style, with a dissertation on the same architect Wilfredo Rodríguez Ramos.
In the afternoon, the Fidelio Ponce de León gallery, located at the headquarters of the Office of the City Historian, was inaugurated the photographic exhibition The elegant architecture of the Camagüey Deco, that collects images of 17 works of that movement that are a sample of the development and innovation for which several architects worked in the city, in the first half of the twentieth century. (Daylén Fenollar Alemán/Radio Camagüey) (Photos: Radio Camagüey)