About Havana Modernist Gray
Havana Modernist Gray distills the post-1959 tropical modernism of Cuba's National Art Schools — Ricardo Porro, Vittorio Garatti, and Roberto Gottardi's Catalan-vaulted brick domes and piloti grids — into a strict cool-gray monochrome.
The reading is sun-bleached, grime-streaked board-formed concrete render: matte, faintly sandy from decades of tropical sun, never cream and never white. Brise-soleil louvers cast soft banded shadows across floating slabs and columns.
- Origin
- Havana, Cuba (Latin America)
- Era
- 1950–1990 (mid-century to late tropical modernism)
- Key figures
- Ricardo Porro · Vittorio Garatti · Roberto Gottardi
- Movements
- Tropical modernism · Cuban revolutionary modernism · Mid-century concrete modernism
Havana Modernist Gray design spec
Colors
Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text
Typography
JostHeadings
Work SansBody
ArchivoMono
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