Cuba has a proud and complex history, combining influences from many population groups: indigenous people, Spanish, North Americans, West Indians and Soviets. Further, the island has a long tradition as a tourist destination. So far, no comprehensive history of architecture exists which this book will provide. It will consist of 10 chapters spanning 500 years of Cuban architectural history: I Pre-Columbian Cuba, Indigenous Settlements, and Vernacular Architecture II Spanish Encounter and Conquest III Early Colonial Architecture and the City IV 18th-Century Grandeur V Late-Colonial Architecture VI Republican Architecture and Eclecticism, 1898-1934 VII Cuban Modernism VIII Revolutionary Architecture and the Air of Romanticism IX Preservation, the Special Period, and Tourism X Cuban Architecture Globally