TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Regular Courses:| 1970-71 | DesignWorkshop I | Fac. of Technology,UH | | 1971-78 | BasicDesign I y II | Fac. of Technology,UH | | 1983-84 | Architectural Projects I
Basic Design II | Fac. of Architecture,ISPJAE | | 1984-85 | Architectural Projects IV | Fac. of Architecture,ISPJAE | | | BasicDesign I y II | ISDI | | 1985-88 | BasicDesign I
Design Workshop IV | ISDI | | 1990-91 | BasicDesign I & II
Surface Treatment Design III-IV | ISDI | | 1995-2000 | ComputerAided Design (AutoCAD-AutoLISP & Microstation) | UC |
| UH: | HavanaUniversity | | ISPJAE: | José Antonio Echeverría Superior PolytechnicInstitute | | ISDI: | Superior Institute for Informational and Industrial Design,Havana | | UC: | University of Cantabria |
Post-graduate Courses imparted:| 1972 | Problems of Perceptionin Architecture and Urbanism. Participation as assistant to professorSven Hesselgren. Faculty of Technology, University of Havana. | | 1974 | Graphic Design Course.
Documentation Center of the National Council for Culture. | | 1975 | Basic Design GraduateCourse.
Faculty of Technology, University of Havana. | | 1983 | Architecture andUrbanism in Cuban Revolution.
Faculty of Arts and Letters, University of Havana. | | 1984 | Architecture of SocialBuildings.
Faculty of Architecture, ISPJAE. | | 1996 | 3D CAD, UniversidadMayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia.
3D CAD, Universidad Autónoma Tomás Frías, Potosí,Bolivia. | | 1999 | LISP graphicsprogramming with AutoCAD. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad nacional delNordeste, Corrientes, Argentina. |
Other Courses:| 1992 | Introduction to ColorWorkshop. Modesto Tapia Cultural Center. Santander, Cantabria.
Introduction to AutoLISP Programming. SERTEC de Cantabria. Santander,Cantabria. | | 1995-96 | Desktop Publishing,SERTEC de Cantabria, Santander. | | 1995-97 | Computer Aided Design(AutoCAD). Instituto de Formación y Estudios Sociales, Santander. | | 1997 | ArcCAD GIS,Departamento de Concentración Parcelaria, Diputación Regional deCantabria, Santander. | | 1998 | Microstation 95 forCartographic design, Departamento de Montes, Diputación Regional deCantabria, Santander. | | 1998 | Microstation 95 forCartographic design, Ayuntamiento de Marina de Cudeyo, Cantabria.
Modelado 3D e Introducción al Realismo. Dpto. de Educación,Universidad de Cantabria, June, 1998 |
POST-GRADUATE STUDIES:- 3D modelling and rendering techniques. Prof. JesusOti, UC, 1997
- Microstation 5, Microstation Geographics. Prof CesarOtero, UC, 1997
- Computational Geometry. Prof. Cesar Otero, UC,1997
- Digital Terrain Modelling. Prof. Javier SanchezEspeso, UC, 1998
- Introduction to Geodetics. Prof. Benjamin Pina, UC,1998
- GPS techniques. Prof. Javier Sanchez Espeso, UC,1998
- Precision Topography Techniques. Prof. RafaelFerrer. UC, 1998
- Visual Basic Programming. Prof. Felipe Diez, IFES,1999
- Curso de Formación de ArquitectosMunicipales. Comisión de Urbanismo, Colegio Oficialde Arquitectos de Cantabria, March 1996.
- Progressive Design Methods. Professors: Tatiana N. Kravets, Viacheslav C.Fybischenko; December 1979. State Committee for Construction.
- Architecture and Industrialization. Professor: Claude Schnaidt; July 1973. DESA,Grupo Nacional de Construcciones Escolares.
- Introduction to Systems Theory. Professor: Lic. Hilda Sosa; December 1972 -February 1973. UH, School of Sciences.
- Aesthetics for Basic Design Teachers. Professor: Lic. Lucila Fernández;December 1972 - February 1973. UH, School of Architecture.
- Social Psychology. Professor: Lic. Nancy Yong; September 1972 -February 1973. UH, School of Psychology.
- The Psychology of Perception. Professor: Lic. Cristina Baeza; September 1972- February 1973. UH, School of Psychology.
- Industrial Design. Professors: Tomás Maldonado, GuiBonsiepe; November 1972. DESA, Central Office.
- History of Industrial Design. Professor: Arch. RobertoSegre; November 1968. UH, Faculty ofHumanities
- Theory, Critics and Methodology inArchitecture. Professor: Arch. RobertoSegre; July 1964. UH, School ofArchitecture.
PUBLICATIONS:- "Premisas para un Diseño IndustrialCubano."
- Ministry for the Light Industry, Havana, 1971.
- "Hesselgren: una teoría de laArquitectura."
- Revista ARQUITECTURA-CUBA Havana, 1973.
- "Redes planas y espaciales. Guía deestudio."
- Faculty of Technology, University of Havana,1975.
- "Notas sobre Teoría delColor."
- Faculty of Architecture, I.S.P.J.A.E., Havana,1978.
- "Kuba épitöiparanek 20éve. Iskolak és más szociálislétes-itmények."
- Folklore and Ethnology Museum, Budapest, July1979 (Hungarian translation).
- "Desarrollo de las técnicas deelaboración de proyectos."
- Memoirs of the First Building Science andTechnology Conference, Havana, 1983.
- "Las técnicas de elaboraciónde proyectos para la construcción en Cuba."
- Memoirs of the Second Congress of theLatin-American Industrial Design Association, Havana, 1983.
- "El Monumento a José Martíen Roma."
- in Ámbito Tres, periódicoExcelsior, México, D.F.; December 14, 1991.
- "Un Monumento Rojo para La HabanaRoja."
- in Ámbito Tres, periódicoExcelsior, México, D.F.; December 28, 1991.
- "Editar y cargar LISPs."
- in AutoCADMagazine, spanish Edition, number 32,August-September 1994.
- "3D-2D Polyline Conversion."
- in AutoCADMagazine, spanish Edition, number 50,June-July 1997.
- "Entidades y Sistemas deCoordenadas."
- in AutoCADMagazine, spanish Edition, number 53,February-March 1998.
- "Delimitacion de Referencias Externa a partir deVentanas Graficas."
- in AutoCAD Magazine, spanish edition, number 59,February-March 1999.
CONGRESSES AND OTHERINTERNATIONAL EVENTS: | 1969 | Sixth Congress of theInternational Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID), London. | | 1973 | International Seminaryon School Buildings, Havana. | | 1979 | "20 añosde construcción en Cuba" Exhibition, Folklore and Ethnology Museum,Budapest. | | 1982 | First Building Scienceand Technology Conference, Havana. | | 1982 | Second Congress of theLatin-American Industrial Design Association (ALADI), Havana. | | 1983 | First Ibero-AmericanEncounter on Cities, Lima. | | 1983 | Second WorldArchitecture Biennial Exhibition, Sofia. | | 1984 | Colloquium onVernacular and Industrial Architecture, ICOMOS, Havana. | | 1987 | Seminary and Workshopon Design for the Ceramics Industry. Amt für Industrielle Formgestaltung,Bauhaus, Dessau. | | 2000 | XII CongresoInternacional de Ingeniería Gráfica. Valladolid, 2000. |
MAIN PROJECTS (Architecture &Industrial Design):| 1966-68 | Designs for ruralhousing, Camagüey and Oriente Provinces
Proposals for the renewal of the town of Caimanera, Guantánamo.
Boutique, Experimental Design Workshop, Santiago de Cuba. | | 1969-72 | Furniture andhouseware design.
Proposals for the development of furniture industry. | | 1973-81 | School buildings:
General planning for the Armed Forces Academy, Bacuranao, Havana. "MáximoGómez" vocational school(2500 students), Camagüey. Officers' club, Armed Forces Academy, Bacuranao, Havana. Classrooms building, "Antonio Maceo" school, Ceiba del Agua, Havana.High school for 1200 students (standard prefab system building) | | | Other programs:
Experimental minimal space dwellings, Havana.
Furniture for experimental dwellings
Artistic ceramics and ceramic sculpture since 1980 | | 1982-88 | Specialist in theDirección de Proyectos of the Ministry for Construction andrepresentative for this entity in the National Monuments Commission:
Consultant and project evaluation in Experts' Committees
Research on the organization and development of the design process Consultanton Computer Aided Design Systems for architectural and engineering designenterprises.
Interior design and color consultant for hospital and sports facilities.
Environmental impact consultant on the building of a communications centerwithin the historical center of the city of Santiago de Cuba.
José Martí monument in Rome, with sculptor TomásLara. | | 1989-90 | Project for aradiation dosimeter calibration laboratory, Wajay, Havana.
Remodeling of buildings for offices and social facilities, Havana.
Lázaro Peña plaza and monument, Havana (competition design)
Industrial ceramics design:
low cost domestic tableware (coauthor) | | 1990-91 | Interiors design forthe competition swimming pool building, XI Pan-American Games, Havana.
Graphics and layout design for INTERIORES plastic arts exhibition(Center for the Development of the Visual Arts, Fourth Havana Biennial ArtsExhibition.) |
CRITICAL APPRAISAL: "Máximo GómezVocational School in Camagüey, designed by architect Reinaldo Togoresculminates this progressive architectonic maturing process. Based on the sumand verification of anterior experiences regarding the use of previouslydefined functional structures, the designer could concentrate in the working upof details, in the constructive finishes, in the articulation of nodes, in thesubtle chromatic treatment."
Roberto Segre, LaEscuela en Forma, CUBA INTERNACIONAL magazine, August 1976. "Architect Togores hasdesigned important buildings for Cuban school architecture . . . He has alsoworked in the sphere of furniture and industrial design and as an associateprofessor of Basic Design at the Faculty of Architecture, making importantcontributions to its theoretical and experimental wealth, above all in fieldslike planar or spatial tessellations and color."
ARQUITECTURA Y URBANISMO magazine, I.S.P.J.A.E., No. 1-2, 1983. "A most elaborate conceptualinquiry, tending to transcend the dialectics between standard and uniqueness,between reticulate pattern and symbolic particularity appears in theexperiences due to Heriberto Duverger and Reinaldo Togores . . ."
"Togores has designed the "Máximo Gómez"Vocational School (1976), defined as to its material support by the standardschool building system "Girón", but introducing a conceptionthat is specific to this school. Due to the concentration and the distributionof its facilities, due to its architecture, there can be no doubt as to itsbeing, right now, the best in Cuba . . . Here it is evident not only the desireto overcome the stereotyped reiteration of the constructive elements and thedesign of details that single out the image of the school, but also the wish toattain the identification of the social group with the building."
Roberto Segre, Arquitecturay Urbanismo de la Revolución Cubana, editora PUEBLO Y EDUCACION, Havana,1989.
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