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Max Borges Jr. (born Max Borges Recio; July 24, 1918 – January 18, 2009),[1][2] was a Cuban-born architect, best known for his work in Havana in the 1940s and 1950s. He moved to the United States in later life.

Biography

Tropicana Club. 1951

Borges Jr. was born in Cuba, the son of Max Borges del Junco, an architect. He later studied in the United States, earning his bachelor's degree at Georgia Tech and a master's degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Borges Jr. returned to Cuba and joined his father's firm, together with his brother Enrique.

Borges' style was influenced by his work with Spanish structural engineer Félix Candela who practiced in Mexico and was a specialist in lightweight concrete parabolic structures. Borges invited Candela to work with him in Cuba, and they both developed extraordinary projects.[3]Tropicana Club owner Martin Fox hired Borges to work on an expansion for the club. He produced the Arcos de Cristal (Crystal Arches).[4] Previously Fox had commissioned Borges to design his Havana home, one of the first Cuban buildings to combine International Style Modernism with Colonial architecture.[5]

Other unique buildings like the 1943 Apartment Building of Max Borges-del Junco at Jovellar St. and the Club Náutico place Borges among a few modern architects of the Americas with a recognizable, original style.

After 1959 his family moved to the United States, where he remained active well into the 1980s, along with his brother Enrique, designing and building many residential and commercial buildings in the Washington Metropolitan Area.[6]

Awards

Colegio de Arquitectos Premio, 1953.

He twice won the Cuban National College of Architects Award. First, for his "Medical and Surgical Center" built in 1948 in El Vedado and, the second time, for the Tropicana Club in 1953. In 2006, he was awarded the Cintas Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.[7]

Family

Era hijo del arquitecto Max Borges del Junco , un reconocido arquitecto cubano. Su hermano era el arquitecto Enrique Borges Recio , con quien colaboró ​​en numerosos proyectos. Contrajo matrimonio con Mignon Olmo-Garrido (18 de marzo de 1923-6 de mayo de 2007) el 5 de febrero de 1944 en la iglesia católica de San Juan de Letrán, en La Habana, Cuba, y tuvieron dos hijos: Philip M. y Max M. Borges Olmo (este último también arquitecto).

Proyectos destacados

Centro Médico Quirúrgico. 1948
Club Náutico . 1953
Edificio Anter, La Habana, 1954
Casa de Max Borges Jr._1958
  • La casa de Santiago Claret (1941)
  • La casa de Martin Fox (1941)
  • Edificio de apartamentos de Max Borges del Junco (1943)
  • La casa de Paula Maza (1946)
  • Casa de Max Borges Recio (1948)
  • Centro Médico Quirúrgico (Centro Médico Quirúrgico) (1948)
  • Club Tropicana (1951), La Habana, Cuba
  • Club Náutico (1953), La Habana, Cuba
  • Edificio Partagás (1954)
  • Edificio Anter (1954)
  • Banco Núñez (1957)
  • La casa de Alberto Borges (1957)
  • La casa de Humberto Tous (1957)

Véase también

Referencias

  1. ↑ Belmont Freeman. "Max Borges, 1918-2009". "The Architect's Newspaper" "The Architect's Newspaper" . Archivado del original el 14 de marzo de 2009. Recuperado el 12 de julio de 2009 .4 de marzo de 2009
  2. ↑ «Obituario de Max E. Borges» . El Washington Post . 21 de enero de 2009 - vía Legacy.com.
  3. ↑ «Los cabarets de Max Borges y Félix Candela: estructuras laminares compartidas» . Consultado el 27 de diciembre de 2018 .
  4. ↑ Moruzzi, Peter (2008). La Habana antes de Castro: Cuando Cuba era un patio de juegos tropical . Gibbs Smith. págs. 108–9 . 
  5. ↑ Stein, Jean (septiembre de 2011). "All Havana Broke Loose: An Oral History of Tropicana" . Vanity Fair .
  6. ↑ Obituario, The Washington Post, 21-23 de enero de 2009
  7. ↑ "Premio a la trayectoria profesional" . Fundación Cintas . Archivado del original el 11 de mayo de 2009.
  • La guía de La Habana: arquitectura moderna 1925-1965 , Eduardo Luis Rodríguez (Nueva York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000) ISBN 1-56898-210-0
  • La Habana , Eduardo Luis Rodríguez, Pepe Navarro (fotógrafo), Blume 1998.
  • Directorio Internacional de Familias Cubanas, Volumen XI 1996-1997 (en español)
  • The Washington Post , 8 de mayo de 2007
  • Arcos de Cristal