HAVANA, Cuba, Mar 26 (ACN) The 18th Conference on Vernacular Architecture 2024 kicked off today in Havana’s Historic Center, in order to promote the architectural and patrimonial values of the Cuban nation.
Tatiana Fernandez de los Santos, director of the Restaura Branch Company that belongs to the Office of the Historian of the City of Havana (OHCH), said that the event celebrates two decades of its first scientific session and the 505th anniversary of the founding of the Villa San Cristobal de La Habana.
The Conference, organized by the Gonzalo de Cardenas Chair of Vernacular Architecture, is the result of the efforts of the company Restaura, other institutions of the OHCH and various actors who defend the existence of the buildings that are at the very root of our identity as