Modern Architectures of North AmericaMain MenuHelp! Help! Help!SuburbiaArchitecture Relating to the Natural EnvironmentPatients, Prisoners, PoliticsIdentity: What Lies Beneath Style and FormChange and AdaptationErica Morawski - The Hotel Nacional de Cuba: Making Meanings and Negotiating NationalismsAmanda - Organic Architecture/F.L. WrightSteph - Moorish Revival ArchitectureBrittney - Sustainable Urban DesignsThe Shift: Art Deco & Modernismby Bayleigh BoganTransition to Streamline ModerneSydney - The Coppelia Ice Cream Shop in Havana, Cuba: A Cultural Moment ManifestedKatie - LevittownGenevieve - The Multifaceted Development of Creole ArchitectureThe Former Church of the Holy Communion: A Specific Example of Change and Adaptation of a Single Building Over TimeRe-Purposing a Religious BuildingZarah Ferrari: Tule Lake Segregation Center: Rising Above an Unjust SystemZarah FerrariLaura - The Suburban Kitchen in Levittown, PABy Laura Krok-HortonMarianna Mapes, Disease and the Body Politic: The National Leprosarium at Carville, LouisianaLiz - Eichler, Neutra, and the mid-century Californian SuburbV. Nash- Berkeley City Women's Club (1929), Berkeley, CA, Julia MorganJulia Morgan was a West Coast architect.Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Transition to ModernismBrendan - Academy of Music
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12016-03-03T13:07:33-08:00Erica Morawskia7252cccd731863566ea2a97321995d06b6810e3818010plain2016-03-25T10:58:04-07:00Erica Morawskia7252cccd731863566ea2a97321995d06b6810e3The Hotel Nacional was situated on more than 13 acres owned by the Cuban government. Originally the site of the Bateria Santa Clara, a colonial fortification to aid in the defense of Havana. After the attack, Will Taylor, manager of the hotel, noted that the Hotel Nacional, "certainly proved to be a Second Santa Clara Battery and the building certainly did its part to withstand the onslaught." Casting the hotel as a military defense structure, Taylor's comment only echoed the way in which the activist movement associated the Hotel Nacional with unwanted U.S. interests and intervention and, in turn, the U.S. with the Machado government.
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12016-03-03T13:05:00-08:00Erica Morawskia7252cccd731863566ea2a97321995d06b6810e3Photo of the Hotel Nacional after the violence of October 2, 19331Collection of the New-York Historical Societymedia/1NacionalBombedFacade2NYHS.jpgplain2016-03-03T13:05:00-08:00Erica Morawskia7252cccd731863566ea2a97321995d06b6810e3
