Ermina Odoardo ( Buenos Aires , June 8, 1923 ) was the first woman to practice architecture in Santiago de Cuba.
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- 2 Offspring
- 3 Residence in the United States
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biographical synthesis
He was born in Buenos Aires, but five months after his birth his parents moved to the United States. Later the family settled in Cuba. In 1940, at the age of 17, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences degree. That year (1940) he entered the University of Havana to study architecture. He excelled in drawing, mathematical calculation, structures, and languages. As a final degree project, he developed the Gonzalo de Quesada Park project in the city of Camagüey. She graduated as an architect, and was accredited as a Cuban citizen.
Bacardi Company Expansion
House in the Merrimac neighborhood
Vista Alegre Tennis Club
Housing outside of Santiago de Cuba
She married the Santiago architect Ricardo Eguilior Perea, with whom she moved from Havana to Santiago de Cuba , where they established their architecture studio. She developed more than fifty projects of which there is a record in the archives, although in many of them only Eguilior’s signature appears despite the studio’s letterhead. Together they worked fundamentally on the subject of domestic architecture, although they also executed industrial warehouses, the expansion of the Ron Bacardí company, the oil refinery located in the bay of Santiago, the Ferreiro supermarket, among others.
First woman architect to practice in Santiago de Cuba
His professional registration in the Colegio de Arquitectos de Oriente dates back to 1948. Most of his works are located in Vista Alegre, an aristocratic neighborhood from the republican period of Santiago de Cuba, and later the first urbanization planned on modern principles in the eastern zone. from the city.
Her house on Calle 19 and Avenida Cebreco was designed by her and constitutes a novel example of rationalism by combining volumes with straight and curved planes. The work has undergone various modifications. She also screened others from the cast itself and from Mirramac.
The Vista Alegre expansion was planned and executed by her and her husband Ricardo in the mid-1950s.
In one of its blocks, the condominium is incorporated as a new residential typology, which constitutes a unique urban environment in the city. In the distribution, despite its eminently residential character, the only public building is located, the Vista Alegre Tennis Club, currently the Orestes Acosta Recreational Circle .
In 1958, the magazine Arquitectura de La Habana published a work by the architects Ermina Odoardo and Ricardo Equilior, where the modernity and functionality of their proposals, their adaptation to climatic conditions, stand out; all of them aspects that are part of the discussions of an era that defines the modern character of Cuban architecture.
Offspring
He had two daughters with Eguilior: Ermina and Teresa.
Residence in the United States
In the late 1960s or early 1970s, the family moved to the city of Miami ( state of Florida) . Her husband, Ricardo Eguilior, died in 2009 at the age of 89.
Ermina continues to live in the city of Coral Gables , north of Miami.
Construction
Among the most relevant works are:
- Bacardi Rum Company. [1]
- Vista Alegre Tennis Club.
- Ferreiro supermarket.
- Drugstore Mestre and Espinoza
- League Against Cancer Hospital
- Office Building for Texaco
- Texaco Refinery Laboratory Building
- Texaco Employee Recreation Building
- Siboney beach pool
- Swimming pool at the Ciudamar Club
- Merrimac Cast Planning
- Planning of the Vista Alegre Distribution Expansion
