ABSTRACT
Architect, Cuba Mario Romañach excelled among the vanguard professionals of 1950s modern Cuban
architecture, including Frank Martínez, Nicolás Quintana, Manuel Gutiérrez, Emilio del Junco, Joaquín Cristófol, Humberto Alonso, Nicolás Arroyo, Eduardo Montelieu, Alberto Beale, and Antonio Quintana. Although Romañach’s work is still under studied, his oeuvre constituted a model of contemporary design adapted to the material and environmental conditions of the tropic, an example soon to be followed by the new generations of Caribbean architects. On graduation from the University of Havana in 1945, Romañach designed collaboratively with Silverio Bosch until 1955, when he began to work independently.
