Varadero
1954
Quintana’s father’s firm, Moenck & Quintana, owned, designed and built the Hotel Club Kawama in the resort town of Varadero in the 1930s. In the early 1950s Quintana added single and multiple-unit bungalows as well as common spaces, combining Modernist and vernacular elements. The bungalows use materials – glass, local hardwoods and local stone – that recur in later projects in Varadero, for which Quintana directed the master urban plan for the National Planning Board. Quintana once noted that the local pine trees throughout the Hotel Club Kawama are a defining feature of the Varadero peninsula and promoted low-rise construction for maintaining a sense of place.
