Supply and Subjectivity: Architecture, Black Energy, and the Geopolitics of Industrialization in Revolutionary Cuba

Gabriel Fuentes is an Assistant Professor at the School of Public Architecture at Kean University’s Michael Graves College, where he coordinates the M.Arch program. In addition to teaching architectural and urban design studios, he teaches architectural history and theory and seminars at the intersection of critical/cultural theory and contemporary urbanism. His research addresses architecture, aesthetics, and politics—focusing on ways that architecture reconfigures scales and territories of power, identity, and culture. His writing has appeared in Log, The Journal of Space Syntax, and e-flux Architecture. He is a winner of the 2020 ACSA/Buell Center Course Development Prize for “Unthinking Oil: Public Architecture and the Post-Carbon Imaginary.”