Liquid La Habana

School of Architecture, Princeton University

From April 9th to May 11th, 2018

Architecture in La Habana, Cuba is usually understood from the point of view of colonialism (whether Spanish or North American), Cold War politics, and tourist economies and ideologies. But it can also be seen as generating wholly new points of view—more fluid and less familiar. Liquid La Habana presents five different case studies from the late nineteenth century to today and challenges their common interpretations. The exhibition explores the ways in which the fluid projects of Ice Cream, Rum, Waves, Sweat and Spouts reshuffle social contracts, radically confronting ideas of modernity, society, economy, sexuality, privacy, diplomacy, aesthetics, geopolitics, race, and development

Curators: Beatriz Colomina, Ivan L. Munuera, Bart-Jan Polman

Research Team: Ingrid Brioso Rieumont, Beatriz Colomina, Ivan L. Munuera, Bart-Jan Polman, Gillian Shaffer, Eda Yetim

Design: Diana Cristobal and KnitKnot Architecture

Graphic Design: Fru*Fru
Model coordinator: Grey A. Wartinger
Fabricator: Stewart Losee
Model Makers: Adam Ainslie, Sharif Anous, Ece Emanetoglu, Sean Rucewicz, Ece Yetim
Exhibition Coordinator: Kira McDonald
Exhibition Assistants: Angel Firmalino, Ryan Gagnebin, Rami Kanafani, Andrea Ng, Anna Renken, Sean Rucewicz

Special Thanks to: Dean Mónica Ponce de León and Maria Gabriela Nouzeilles Camn Castens, Courtney Coffman, John Hunter, Michele Key, Christian Lambert, Amber Lee, Melissa Parsowith, Caralyn Schwartz, Bill Tansley, Jeanette Turner, Laurie Zazenski

Co-Sponsored by: School of Architecture, PLAS (Program in Latin American Studies) Princeton Mellon Initiative, Program in Media and Modernity

Photographs: Imagen Subliminal

More info: Princeton University