Dr. Mario Coyula Cowley was a Cuban

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

and architectural historian. He was an authority on the history and preservation of

Havana Havana (; Spanish: ''La Habana'' ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.

. Cowley was born in Havana on June 16, 1935, and died in Havana on July 7, 2014, age 79.Obituary: Mario Coyula Cowley, 1935-2014
/ref> Dr. Coyula served as a Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor from 2002-2003 at

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in Urban Planning and Design. He was a full professor at the Faculty of Architecture of Havana from 1964, profesor de Mérito (2001), National Award of Architecture (2001), National Habitat Award (2004), and Académico de Mérito (2011). He was director of the school of Architecture, of the City Department of Architecture and Urbanism, and of the Group for the Integrated Development of the Capital (GDIC) all from Havana. Dr. Coyula is also a member of several commissions, scientific councils and advisory councils. He is a co-author of the book ''Havana: Two Faces of the Antillean Metropolis'' (London and Chapel Hill:

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, 2002) with Roberto Segre and Joseph L. Scarpaci, Jr. His son is the filmmaker

Miguel Coyula Miguel Coyula Aquino (born March 31, 1977, in Havana) is a Cuban filmmaker and writer. At age 17, he made his first short with a VHS camcorder, which led to his admittance to Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television (The International Film and ...

References

External links

A collection of essays by Mario Coyula
UN JOBS Mario CoyulaObituary, Arch Record Magazine
1935 births 2014 deaths Cuban architects Cuban architectural historians 20th-century Cuban historians 21st-century Cuban historians {{Cuba-historian-stub