01/05/2015
According to New York architect Warren James, “In Cuba, Porro took the Catalan vault and made it dance,” adding that “he painted and sculpted with it. In a Caribbean context, with a tropical exuberant landscape, his architecture remains revolutionary.”
http://www.cubanartnews.org/news/remembering-ricardo-porro/4233
Ricardo Porro, the lead architect of Cuba’s famed National Art Schools buildings, passed away in Paris on Christmas Day at 89 years of age.