Havana Plan Piloto

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Havana Plan Piloto
Plan Piloto de La Habana Directivas Generales. Town Planning Associates. Havana, Cuba, 1959.[1][2]
Proposed master plan, Havana Plan Piloto[1][2]
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 / 23.1359; -82.3583
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
[1][2][3]

The Havana Plan Piloto was a 1955–1958 urban proposal by Town Planning Associates,^[2] 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".^[1] 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"^[4] bound for Athens from Marseilles. This conference is documented in a film commissioned by Sigfried Giedion and made by his friend László Moholy-Nagy.^[5] 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.^[1][2][3] The plan was abandoned and was not made.