Building Bacardi: Architecture, Art & Identity

(Hardback)

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Richly graphic, showing vintage posters, artful photography, and largelyunseen and little known work by titans of twentieth-century architecture, thebook will be of interest to cutting-edge art and architecture aficionados,architects, and students of design. The book is particularly well-timed withinterest in most things Cuba rising.

Anyway you drink it...Bacardi rum is the mixable one. Bacardi is best known forits rum and trademark bat logo. Yet the famed spirits company has also been aforce in the development of avant-garde art and architecture. True to thecompany slogan, Bacardi has asserted its corporate identity through buildingsdesigned by a potent mix of modern architects with varying, sometimes radicallydifferent approaches to architecture.

Author Bio

Allan T. Shulman is an architect and the founder of Miami-basedShulman + Associates. His work is widely published, and has been honored withover 60 design awards. Shulman is also an author, editor, lecturer, curator andassociate professor at the University of Miami School of Architecture.