- He studied architecture at the University of Havana.
- In 1957, his clandestine opposition to the regime of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista placed him in danger of arrest. He fled with his wife to Venezuela, but returned to Cuba after the revolution.
- He was an architect who gave expression to a hopeful young Cuban revolution in the early 1960s. His two National Art Schools were begun during a utopian time in the revolution, then abandoned as "counterrevolutionary" as Cuba fell under Soviet influence. He lived the rest of his life in exile in France.
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