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National Art Schools | Havana, Cuba

In Cuba, the National Art Schools once inhabited a sprawling campus designed by the architects Ricardo Porro, Roberto Gottardi and Vittorio Garatti. Now sadly unfinished, abandoned and overgrown, the buildings were intended to epitomize “the utopian aspirations of the revolution,” when Fidel Castro commissioned them in 1961.

That is, until a world-renowned Cuban dancer returned to his native Havana with an idea to breathe new life into the dilapidated institution.

Photographs from John A. Loomis’ Revolution of Forms