This issue of Amano marks the beginning of a new era, determined to reveal the richness in Cuban design and its many and diverse specialties. Hence, examples of graphic, industrial, interior or fashion design, along with architecture, crafts or photography all coexist in these pages.
And because designing is also prefiguring, space has been reserved for the concretion of those prefigurations, together with the dreams a sketch or a scale model may hold. In this edition, we have wanted to reflect the actions that are being carried out towards the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the founding of Havana in November 2019, with an article depicting one of the most significant symbols of the Cuban capital, the Capitolio Nacional, and
another piece about the Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos Workshop School, which was farsightedly created to ensure the ambitious restoration program of the
Historic Center, designed— that is, dreamed of—and carried out by the Office
of the City Historian with a visionary at the head.
