PERSONAL

 

Name:                 JULIO CESAR PEREZ, La Habana, Cuba. 19-OCT. 1957
Address:             Ave. 37 # 6611 San Antonio de los Baños 32500 La Habana, Cuba.
Phone:                (+53) - 047- 38 2727

E-mail:                jcaesar_2002@yahoo.co.uk
Website:             http://www.cigarclub.lu/perez/


EDUCATION

2002- 2001        Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA. USA.
2002                   Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA.USA.
2002                   Harvard University Science Center, Cambridge, MA. USA.
1982- 1976        University of Havana, Cuba. School of Architecture.


JOB EXPERIENCE

2002-2001         Harvard University/ Loeb Fellowship, Cambridge, MA. USA. Research Scholar.
2002-2002         MIT, Cambridge, MA. Guest lecturer and Design Critic. Invited Professor.
2005-2002         Adjunct Associate Professor at the Boston Architectural Center, Boston, MA.USA.
2006-1998         Adjunct Associate Professor/ School of Architecture University of Havana.
2001-2000         Adjunct Associate Professor/ Faculty of Architecture University of Toronto.
2001-1996         Community Architect. Municipality of San Antonio de los Baños.
1996-1984         City Architect/ Department of Planning and Architecture San Antonio de los Baños.
1984-1982         Project Principal/ Provincial Department of Projects of La Habana.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/ Teaching and Lecturing

Climate Change and Urban Design Conference, Oslo, Norway, 2008
Havana International Charrettes 2008 and 2007.
Guest lecturer at 15th International Autumn Academy on Urbanism, Neukloster, Nakenstorf, Germany 2007
Keynote Speaker at What is Urbanism International Conference, Shoreditch Trust, London, England, 2007.
Guest lecturer at Space, Place, Life International Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 2007.
Guest lecturer at Royal Institute for the Irish Architects, Ireland, 2007.
Guest lecturer at KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm, Sweden, 2007.
Guest lecturer at Sundsvall Cultural Center, Sundsvall, Sweden, 2007.
Guest lecturer at Umea, Sweden, 2007.
Guest lecturer at the Architects Association, Oslo, Norway, 2007.
Guest lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Castilla - La Mancha, Toledo, Spain 2007.
Guest lecturer at the Cigar Club of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 2007, 2004.
Guest lecturer at the The Venice Charter Revisited International Conference, Venice, Italy 2006.
Guest lecturer at Taschen Headquearters, Cologne, Germany, 2006.
Guest lecturer at Mariblanca Real State Office, Aranjuez, Spain, 2006.
Guest lecturer at the College of Architects of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain, 2006.
Guest lecturer at the College of Architects of Andalucía, Seville, Spain, 2006.
Guest lecturer at the Urban Planning International Convention, Havana, 2006.
Keynote speaker at the Debate of Ideas about the Future of Havana, Havana, 2005.
Participant in I CEU International Conference, Berlín, Germany, 2005.
Panel Discussion of the Swedish Grace International Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 2005.
Guest lecturer at the Architects Association, Oslo, Norway, 2005.
Guest lecturer at the IV Triennale, Bologna, Italy, 2004.
Guest lecturer at the Viseu International Conference on Architectural Education, Viseu, Portugal, 2004.
Guest lecturer at the III International Conference on Landscape Design, Pinar del Río, Cuba, 2003.
Guest Design Critic at the University of Miami, Florida, 2003.
Design Critic and Invited Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 2002.
Design Critic and Invited Professor at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 2002.
Topic Chairman for Education and Pedagogy at ACSA International Conference, Havana, Cuba, 2002.
Invited Professor and Design Critic at the Boston Architectural Center, Boston, MA, 2003, 2004, 2005.
Guest lecturer and Design Critic at Harvard Design School, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2002.
Guest lecturer and Design Critic at MIT, Cambridge, MA, 2002.
Guest lecturer at Florida International University (FIU), Miami, Florida, 2002.
Guest lecturer for the Land Use Seminar, University of Southern California Law School, 2003, 2002, Havana.
Lecturer at the Windsor Forum for Design Education, Windsor, Vero Beach, Florida, 2002.
Guest lecturer at the National Building Museum, Washington DC, 2002.
Invited Professor and Design Critic at Harvard University GSD- Havana Studios 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000.
Invited Professor and Design Critic at Cornell University, USA, 2002.
Guest lecturer at Cornell University, New York, USA, 2002.
Invited Professor and Design Critic at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2002.
Guest lecturer for the USA National Board for Historic Preservation, Havana, 2001, 2002, 2003.
Guest lecturer for the Fogg Fellows, the Newark Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, Association of Museum Directors, Exeter Museum and Miss Porter School, Havana, 2003.
Guest lecturer for the Whitney Art Museum of New York and the Garden Club of America, Havana, 2002.
Guest lecturer and Design Critic at California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA,USA, 2001.
Guest lecturer for the Harvard Alumni Association, Princeton University Art Museum, Vassar College of NY and New Museum of Contemporary Art of NewYork, Havana, 2001.
Guest lecturer at the Symposium on Hispanic American Architecture, Harvard University GSD, 2000.
Guest lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto, 2000.
Adjunct Associate Professor of the Global Architecture Programme, University of Toronto, 2000.
Guest lecturer for the Greve Foundation of NY, the Random House and for the Ohio Arts Council, Havana, 2000.
Adjunct Professor and Lecturer, Faculty of Architecture of Havana and other institutions in the country since 1998.
Keynote speaker at "Art and Architecture" Conference, Havana International Biennial Fair, S.A.Baños,1997.


AWARDS and MERITS

Cuban Artists Fund, New York, 2003
Loeb Fellowship Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Class 2001-2002.
Grand prix I National Architecture Salon, Cuba, 1997. Urban and Environmental Design.
Grand Prix IV Biennial of Architecture of the Caribbean, Urban and Environmental Design.Cuba,1997.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/ OTHER

Author of the book “Inside Cuba, Taschen Editorial, 2006.
Chairman of Cuban Chapter of CEU (Council for European Urbanism).
Consultant for PhD Thesis “Colonial Urbanism in Cuba”, University of Shiga, Osaka, Japan, 2008- 2005.
Project Principal in over 300 miscellaneous projects (some of them built, some in progress). See website.
Personal exhibition Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2002.
Participant in the World Trade Center Memorial project, Harvard University GSD, 2002.
Build Boston 2001, Boston, Massachussets, E.E.U.U., USA, 2001.
Author of the book “The Island, Visions of Cuba” to be published in 2008 by Editorial Samper, Vancouver, Canada.
Consultant for Mattamy Corporation, Ontario, Canada for Planning, Architecture and Development in Havana,1999.
Consultant for Varadero International Business Center Project, 1999.
Jury of the II National Architectural Salon, Havana, Cuba, 1999.
Participant II International Biennial of Urbanism, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1998.
Consultant for the book Insider´s Cuba Guide, author: Kirsten Ellis, published in six languages by Allan Amsel, 1998.
Consultant for UIA Contest and Diploma Thesis “Rehabilitation of San Lorenzo Neighborhood, Segovia, Spain,1997.
SIARIN /97. International Seminar on Tourism and the City, Varadero, Matanzas, Cuba. 1997.
IV Havana Art Biennial Art & Architecture Workshop, 1997, S.A. Baños Gallery of Art, La Habana, Cuba.
Regional and Urban Planning Seminar, Havana, Cuba, 1996.
II National Congress of Geography,1996, La Habana, Cuba
National Conference on Housing and Urbanism, 1993, Havana, Cuba.
FMOI / 93 Physical Planning Institute Tourism Conference, Havana, Cuba, 1993.
Consultant for Master of Science Thesis "Housing in Cuba in XIX Century", 1992.
Participant in over 30 International and National Conferences on Planning and Architecture.
Collective Architectural Exhibitions in Cuba, 1990, 1991, 1997, 2000 and 2001.
Participant in the "Andrea Palladio" International Contest, 1989 and 1993, Vicenza, Italy.
Member of the Editorial Board of Arquitectura Cuba Journal (professional journal) 2001- 1996.
Hispanic American Congress on Urbanism, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, 1990.
National Conference on Architecture and Urbanism. 1988, Havana, Cuba.
International Conference on Housing and Urbanism, 1987, Havana, Cuba.
National Conference on Art and Architecture, 1987, Havana, Cuba.
International Conference on Architecture for Tourism, 1986, Havana, Cuba.
International Conference on Regional and Urban Planning, 1985, Havana, Cuba.
Location Advisor for international films and TV international productions, including Robin Leach in Cuba.

 

LANGUAGES

Spanish:         Mother tongue.

English:          Speaks, reads and writes fluently.

French:           Speaks, reads and writes fluently.
Italian:             Speaks, reads and writes slowly.


PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS MEMBERSHIP

Cuban Chapter of CEU (Council for European Urbanism). Founding Chairman.
Council for European Urbanism (CEU). Since 2004
INTBAU (International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism). Since 2004
Founding Member of the Vernacular Architecture Chair “Gonzalo de Cárdenas”. Havana- Spain 2004.
Founding Member of DOCOMOMO’s Cuban Section,
Member of UNAICC (National Union of Architects and Engineers of Cuba ). Since 1983.
Member of UNEAC (National Union of Artists and Writers of Cuba). Since 1997.

 

RESEARCH

1986-         Colonial Architecture of the Caribbean.
1989-         Vernacular Architecture.
1990-         Contemporary trends in Architecture / Postmodernism and Deconstruction.
1993-         Colonial housing of the XIX century in Havana.
1994-         Courtyards in Cuban architecture: a complete guide (to be published in 2005).
1995-         The architecture of Luis Barragán.
1997-         Courtyards in world architecture, ancient and moderns.
1997-         Evolution of the European urban and architectural models in America from XVI to XIX century.
1998-         Influence of the USA urbanism and architecture in Cuba from 1898 to 1998.
2001-         History and Evolution of Urbanism in Cuba from XVI to XX Century.
2002-         Urban Design in Cuba.
2005-         Colonial Cuban Urbanism.
2006-         Colonial Cuban Urbanism.


LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

“Cuba World Heritage Sites and The Master Plan for XXI Century Havana“, Irish Architecture Journal, Dublin, 2007.
“Inside Cuba”, Taschen GmbH, Cologne, 2006. ISBN3- 8228- 4597- 3.
“ Vernacular Architecture and Urbanism in Havana”. Caribbean Design Magazine, Jamaica 2005.
“A Master Plan for Havana: Vision of the XXI Century”. Bologna IV Triennale proceedings, Italy, 2004.
“Windsor Forum on Design” New Urban Press, Miami 2004, ISBN 0-975450-60-3 Editor Dhiru Thadani, 2004.
“Teaching Architecture ”.Viseu International Conference on Education, Portugal, 2004.
“Arcadia, a new community “, Arquitectura Cuba Journal , No. 377, pages 62-63, 1998.
“An urbanism theme,the urban block”, Newsletter of the Architectural Society, No.8, 1998.
“Rehabilitation of the Lonja del Comercio of Havana”, Arquitectura Cuba Journal, No. 378, pages 58-61, 1998
“A review of a heritage”, Arquitectura Cuba Journal, No. 378, pages 82, 1998.
“Museum,Museology and Museography”, Arquitectura Cuba Journal, No. 376, page 72, 1997.
“Mario Girona:architecture national award 1997”, Arquitectura Cuba Journal , No. 376, page 75, 1997.
“The Postmodern Paradigma”, Newsletter of the Architectural Society of Cuba, No. 3, 1996.
“Neomodern Architecture “, Newsletter of the Architectural Society of Cuba, No. 5, 1996..
“Michael Graves : a case for figurative architecture”, Newsletter of the Architectural Society of Cuba , No. 6, 1996.
“Sustainable development and the New Urbanism”, Newsletter of the Architectural Society, No. 6, 1996.
“Urban Renewal / Center of San Antonio de los Baños”, Arquitectura y Urbanismo Journal, No. 2, pages 81-84, 1993.
“Arabian School Language in Havana “, Arquitectura Cuba Journal , No. 375, page 43, 1992.