Havana Plan Piloto
| Havana Plan Piloto | |
|---|---|
Plan Piloto de La Habana Directivas Generales. Town Planning Associates. Havana, Cuba, 1959. | |
Proposed master plan, Havana Plan Piloto | |
| General information | |
| Status | Abandoned |
| Type | Planning proposal |
| Architectural style | International |
| Classification | Urban |
| Location | City of Havana |
| Town or city | Ciudad de La Habana |
| Country | Cuba |
| Coordinates | 23°08′09″N 82°21′30″W / 23.1359°N 82.3583°W |
| Client | Fulgencio Batista |
| Owner | City of Havana |
| Height | |
| Architectural | CIAM, Athens Charter |
| Technical details | |
| Material | Reinforced concrete |
| Size | 781.58 km2 (301.77 sq mi) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Josep Lluis Sert, Paul Lester Wiener, Mario Romañach |
| Developer | Junta Nacional de Planificacion de Cuba |
| Structural engineer | Félix Candela |
| Other designers | Hideo Sasaki, Gabriela Menéndez, Mercedes Diaz, Nicolás Arroyo |
| Other information | |
| Parking | As required |
| References | |
The Havana Plan Piloto was a 1955–1958 urban proposal by Town Planning Associates, which included Paul Lester Wiener, Paul Schulz, the Catalan architect Josep Lluis Sert, and Seely Stevenson of Value & Knecht, Consulting Engineers, seeking to combine "architecture, planning, and law". The Charter got its name from the location of the fourth CIAM conference in 1933, which, due to the deteriorating political situation in Russia, took place on the "in SS Patris II" bound for Athens from Marseille. This conference is documented in a film commissioned by Sigfried Giedion and made by his friend László Moholy-Nagy. The Charter had a significant impact on urban planning after World War II and, through Josep Lluis Sert and Paul Lester Wiener, on the proposed modernization of Havana and in an effort to erase all vestiges of the 16th-century city. The plan was abandoned and was not made.