Roberto Segré Prando ( Milan , October 14, 1934 – Niterói , March 10, 2013 ) . Prominent Italian -born Brazilian architect, critic, and historian . Thanks to his prolific work, he obtained the titles of Doctor Honoris Causa from the José Antonio Echeverría Higher Polytechnic Institute , doctor in Art Sciences from the University of Havana , and in Regional and Urban Planning from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro .
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biographical synthesis
Roberto Segré was born in Milan , Italy on October 14 , 1934 . Although his European roots do not mask the fact that he emigrated to Argentina when he was still very young , it surely motivated his full identification with the inhabitants of the New World . He had an uninterrupted teaching job in many universities around the world, being an expert with a vast intellectual and scientific production.
Segré was, among other things, a professor at the important José Antonio Echeverría Higher Polytechnic Institute in Havana , where on one occasion he stated that:
I come to give my courses and I travel to Brazil, but my house and my family are Cuban.
He himself recognized that his interpretation of the reality of the Latin American context was clarified during a stay in Brazil , just before traveling to Cuba in 1963 , seduced by the nascent Cuban Revolution , with the purpose of becoming an academic and “conceiving history as a instrument to transform the world. He has pointed out «…there is no future without the past, there is no innovation without tradition, there is no architecture without culture…».
Roberto Segré died on March 10, 2012 in the Brazilian city of Niterói , in the state of Rio de Janeiro , due to a traffic accident that caused him serious injuries from which he did not recover [1] .
Publications
- Ten Years of Architecture in Revolutionary Cuba ( 1970)
- Latin America in its architecture ( 1975), the result of a project sponsored by UNESCO
- Architecture and urbanism of the Cuban Revolution ( 1989)
- Latin America, end of the millennium: roots and perspectives of its architecture ( 1991 )
- 20th CenturyAntillean Architecture ( 2003 ).
He devoted himself, among other things, to studying the Cuban colonial fortresses and carried out a work that addressed precisely the significance of that system of fortifications for the Caribbean area and a history of Havana, which was published in Cuba, but in general, most of it of his production was on modern architecture.
