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American director Robert Wilson made an opera based on the life of Ricardo Porro during the construction of the Schools of Art in Havana. In the year 2012, the president of the Italian Republic awarded him the Vittorio De Sica prize for Architecture, for the project of the School of Art,
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Since 1966, Ricardo Porro participated in important architectural competitions such as the PalĂĄis de l'air et de l'espace (Paris), and the urban planning of the
University of Villetaneuse, in collaboration with the Polish architect André Mrowiec. His first work of architecture built in Europe was in
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Following this first work and in parallel to his work as a sculptor and painter, Porro began to work and achieve numerous projects of architecture and urbanism: The Youth House, in Vaduz, as well as a
Holiday Village on the Island of Vela Luka, Yugoslavia, and the Esfahan villa, in Iran, 1975.
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Currently 2014, he had finished painting a new series of paintings in large format, on a proposal for presentation by
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Ricardo Porro was a member of the French Order of
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The MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York included original drawings of his projects The
Schools of Art and Dance in Havana in its exhibition "Latin America in Construction: architecture 1955-1980" from March 29 to July 19, 2015 among other important Latin American architects.
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Back to Cuba, in 1952, he conceived and made in Havana a series of works of architecture: Villa Ennis (1953), Villa San Miguel (1953), Villa
Villegas (1953), la casa Garcia (1954), the house Abbot-Villegas (1954) and Timothy Ennis (1957)his work took on distinctive
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tendencies. These residences are part of the most important works of the modern architecture movement in Cuba, along with those of other young architects of his generation such as
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building style that was rapidly gaining dominance in the country. Once in Europe, Porro taught classes in Paris, Lille and
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