Unlike Most Revolutions, the Cuban experiment did not rebuild the country's capital to reflect the new regime's values: instead, it preserved all that was there before, including the hotels and casinos built under Batista' regime. Today Havana is not only a vitrine of modern architecture, but also a metropolis that continues to operate as it did in 1959; buildings, automobiles, cabarets, cinemas from the 1950s are still there, and the values of the modern movement are still current in a city that remains untouched by postmodernism, deconstruction or twenty-first century aesthetics. This volume brings together architectural historians, cultural critics and artists who suggest new ways of reading the last modern city in the world.