reinaldo.togores@unican.es
www.togores.net

2003

PhD. in Civil Engineeering (Dr. Ing. Caminos Canales y Puertos).
University of Cantabria, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos.

1966

Master of Architecture (Arquitecto).
University of Havana, Faculty of Architecture.
Recognized as equivalent to the Spanish Degree of Architect by the Spanish Ministry for Education and Sciences on 05/11/1993.

Computational Geometry Methods Applied to Designing Space Structures (Métodos de Geometría Computacional Aplicados al Diseño de Estructuras Espaciales). Advisors: Prof. C. Otero, A. Iglesias.

2006-2012

Associate Professor. University of Cantabria, Santander.
Geographic Engineering and Graphic Expression Techniques Dept.
Data Structures and neutral formats, 3D CAD.

1995-2005

Lecturer. University of Cantabria, Santander.
Geographic Engineering and Graphic Expression Techniques Dept.
Analysis of Forms and Graphic Design, Computer Aided Design.

1984-1991

Auxiliary Professor. Instituto Superior de Diseño Industrial, Havana.
Basic Design I & II, Design Workshop IV, Surface Treatment Design III-IV.

1983-1985

Adjunct Professor. Instituto Superior Politécnico “J. A. Echeverría”, Havana. Faculty of Architecture.
Basic Design II, Architectural Projects I & IV.

1970-1978

Adjunct Professor. Instituto Superior Politécnico “J. A. Echeverría”, Havana. Faculty of Architecture.
Design Workshop I, Basic Design I & II.

Invited Lectures and Seminars in Academic Institutions

1999

AutoLisp Graphics Programming. U. Nac. del Nordeste, Corrientes, Argentina

1996

CAD: Solids Modeling. U. Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia

1996

CAD: Solids Modeling. U. Autónoma Tomás Frías, Potosí, Bolivia

1984

The Architecture of Social Buildings. ISPJAE, Havana, Cuba

1983

Cuban School Buildings. I Ibero-American Encounter on Cities, Lima, Peru

1981

Recent Cuban Architecture. Universities of Algiers and Constantine, Algeria

1979

Cuban Architecture: Schools and Social Buildings. Folklore & Ethnology Museum, Budapest, Hungary

1974

Basic Design for Graphic Designers. Consejo Nacional de Cultura, Havana, Cuba

Professional Experience

2012-2016

Interior Design & Layout Consulting. Happy Reels, S. A. Mexico.

1994-2012

Computer Aided Design Consultant and Author.

1995-2001

Computer Aided design Instructor. Instituto de Formación y Estudios Sociales. Santander, Spain.

1992-1994

CAD Systems Analyst. SERTEC de Cantabria, S.L. Santander, Spain.

1988-1990

Architect. Secretaría Ejecutiva de Asuntos Nucleares. Havana.

1985-1987

Associate Researcher. Ministry for Construction (MICONS) Havana.

1981-1984

Projects Branch Specialist, Ministry for Construction (MICONS) Havana.

1978-1980

Production Vice-Director, National School Projects Enterprise. Havana.

1977-1978

Chief Architect, Typical Projects Dept. National School Projects Enterprise. Havana.

1972-1977

Architect. National School Building Group. Havana.

1969-1971

Head of the Furniture Research and Development Group. Ministry for Light Industry, Havana.

1966-1968

Chief Architect, South Oriente Office. Vice Ministry for Housing.

1961-1966

Internships in Marianao Municipality’s Architecture and Urbanism Department and in the Vice-ministry for Housing.

Built Work

2012-2015

Layout, interior design and mural graphics for Gastronomy and Recreation centers. Chilpancingo, Manzanillo, Colima and Tecoman (Mexico).

1991

Mural graphics and interior design for the competition swimming pool building, XI Pan-American Games, Havana.
Fine arts exhibition design. Fourth Havana Biennial.

1989-1990

Radiation dosimeter calibration laboratory, Wajay, Havana.

1988

José Martí monument in Rome, with sculptor Tomás Lara.

1982

Tridilosa Pedestrian walkway system. Havana.

1981

Experimental minimal space dwellings, Havana.

1980

Command Officers faculty, “A. Maceo” military academy, Ceiba del Agua, Havana.

1979

Urban high school for 1200 students (standard prefab system building)

1977

Officers’ club, Armed Forces Academy, Bacuranao, Havana.

1974-1976

“Máximo Gómez” vocational school, Camagüey.

1973

Planning for the Armed Forces Academy, Bacuranao, Havana.

1968

Boutique, Experimental Design Workshop, Santiago de Cuba.

1967

Urban renewal project for the town of Caimanera, Guantánamo.

1966-1968

Rural housing, Camagüey and Oriente Provinces

1962-1963

“E. J. Varona” Municipal Library, Marianao (with Arnaldo Sicilia).

1962

Calle 60 Apartment building, Marianao.

Publications

Books

2012

AutoCAD expert’s Visual LISP. CreateSpace, California.

2012

Experto AutoCAD con Visual LISP. ARTUAL, Barcelona.

2003

Programación en AutoCAD con Visual LISP. McGraw-Hill/Interamericana. Madrid

E-books

2016

Programación 3D: Sólidos, Mallas y Superficies. Kindle.

2015

Controlar AutoCAD con AutoLISP/Visual LISP. Kindle

2013

Visual LISP, El lenguaje y su Entorno de Desarrollo. Kindle.

2013

Visual LISP, The Language and its Development Environment. Kindle.

2013

Controlling AutoCAD from Visual LISP. Kindle.

2013

Programming 3D. Solids, Meshes & Surfaces. Kindle.

2013

Advanced Programming Techniques. Kindle.

Research papers

2010

Capote J., Alvear D., Abreu O., Lázaro M., Togores R., et al.; Automated Decision Support System (DSS) for Emergencies in Road Tunnels by Computer Modelling and Simulation. CEDEX

2009

Capote J., Alvear D., Abreu O., Togores R., et al.; Evacuation Analysis in High Speed Trains based on Computer Modelling and Simulation. CEDEX-Ministerio de Fomento.

2006

Bosch C., Ballester F., Otero C., Fernández M., Coma I., Togores R.; VALLE: A Highway Design System in a Virtual Reality Environment. ISCCBE Montréal.

2006

Otero C., Díaz J., Togores R., Manchado C.; Chordal Space Structures, Shaped from Voronoi Diagrams. ISCCBE Montréal.

2006

Díaz J., Otero C., Togores R., Manchado C.; Non-Euclidean Metrics and Chordal Space Structures. ICCSA Glasgow.

2005

Otero, C., Togores, R.; De las Particiones del Plano en el Diseño de las Estructuras Espaciales Cordales. XI EGC Santander, Spain

2005

Díaz J., Otero C., Togores R., Manchado C.; Power Diagrams in the Design of Chordal Space Structures. II ISVDScE Seoul, Korea

2004

Otero C., Bruschi V., Cendrero A., Gálvez A., Lázaro M., Togores R.; An Application of Computer Graphics for Landscape Impact Assessment. ICCSA–LNCS Assisi.

2004

Gálvez A., Iglesias A., Otero C., Togores R.; Matlab Toolbox for a First Computer Graphics Course for Engineers. ICCSA–LNCS Assisi.

2004

Díaz J., Togores R., Otero C.; Geometry Applied to Designing Spatial Structures: Joining Two Worlds. ICCSA–LNCS Assisi.

2002

Togores R., Otero C.; Mallas Espaciales de Panel, Métodos Geométricos de Diseño. XIV INGEGRAF Santander.

2002

Otero C., Togores R.; Computational Geometry and Spatial Meshes. ICCS-LNCS Amsterdam.

2000

Togores R.; Procedimientos y Herramientas Orientadas a la Clasificación de las Entidades Gráficas en Entornos CAD. XII INGEGRAF Valladolid.

2000

Otero C., Bruschi V., Togores R.; Métodos Gráficos en la Modelización, Simulación y Evaluación del Impacto Ambiental. XII INGEGRAF Valladolid.

1999

Otero, C., Pedraja, A., Togores, R.; SIG para Programas de Gestión de Residuos Sólidos de Cantabria. XI INGEGRAF Logroño - Pamplona

1982

Togores, R.; Técnicas de Elaboración de Proyectos. II ALADI Havana.

Awards

1989

Lázaro Peña Monument Contest, CODEMA, Havana. First Prize. Sculptors: R. Negrín, J. Quintanilla. Unbuilt.

1988

José Martí Monument in Rome Contest, CODEMA, Havana. First Prize. Sculptor: Tomás Lara. Built in the EUR district, Rome.

1981

National Contest for Agricultural Cooperative Housing Designs. Ministry of Construction. First Prize.

1980

First Design Contest, Ministry of Light Industry. Awards in the Lamps and Toy sections.

Affiliations

1997-present

Registered Author & Consultant. Autodesk Developers Network (ADN).

1996-present

Spanish Association of Graphic Expression in Engineering Professors. (INGEGRAF).

1990-present

Environmental Design Section. Cuban National Union of Writers and Artists (UNEAC).

1980-present

Cuban Association of Craft Artists (ACAA).

1982-1989

Member of the Cuban National Monuments Commission.

Skills

CAD

Teaching, consulting and programming with Autodesk CAD Software, including AutoCAD, Autodesk Civil 3D, Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk Revit Building Series. Teaching in Bentley Microstation.

GIS

ESRI ArcGis (user), GeoMedia (teaching), Autodesk MAP 3D (teaching, consulting and programming).

3D

Coaching of student projects using Autodesk 3DStudio MAX and Daylon Leveller.

VR

Projects with Open SceneGraph, VTBuilder, Vianova Virtual Map, RDV Systems, TurnTools, Cult3D.

Programming

Experience Teaching and/or Programming: Lisp, AutoLisp, Visual Lisp, Visual Basic, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Java, JavaScript, PHP.

Graphics

Adobe PhotoShop CS6, Illustrator, Indesign.

Bibliographical references to my work.

2011

Eduardo Luis Rodriguez editor. La Arquitectura del Movimiento Moderno. Selección de Obras del Registro Nacional, Ediciones Unión, Colección Arquitectura y Ciudad, La Habana, Pages .206, 220, 221

2009

H. Duverger, editor. Guía de arquitectura y paisaje de Camagüey y Ciego de Ávila (Cuba) Consejería de Vivienda y Ordenación del Territorio Fomento de la Arquitectura / Cooperación Internacional. Junta de Andalucía. Page 155.

2005

José Veigas. La escultura en Cuba: siglo XX. Fundación Caguayo, Pages 227, 245.

2005

Roberto Segre. Tres décadas de reflexiones sobre el hábitat latinoamericano. Univ. Nacional de Colombia, Pages 1986, 2042, 2044, 2053.

2004

Jean-Paul Midant. Diccionario Akal de la arquitectura del siglo XX. Ediciones AKAL, Page 226

2003

Roberto Segre. Arquitectura antillana del siglo XX. Univ. Nacional de Colombia, Page 357.

2001

J. de las Cuevas et al. 500 años de construcciones en Cuba. Chavín, Servicios Gráficos y Editoriales, Madrid. Page 326.

2001

Rafael Hernández Rodríguez, John H. Coatsworth. Culturas encontradas: Cuba y los Estados Unidos. Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de la Cultura Cubana Juan Marinello, Page 93.

1998

Leslie Bethell. A cultural history of Latin America: literature, music, and the visual arts in the 19th and 20th centuries. Cambridge University Press, Page 376.

1991

Roberto Segre. América Latina fim de milênio: raízes e perspectivas de sua arquitetura. Studio Nobel, Page 189.

1990

Roberto Segre. Lectura crítica del entorno cubano. Editorial Letras Cubanas, Pages 84, 220.

1989

Roberto Segre. Arquitectura y urbanismo de la revolución cubana. Editorial Pueblo y Educación, Pages ix, 217.

1985

Damián Bayón, Aracy A. Amaral. Arte moderno en América Latina. Taurus, Page 40.

1982

Roberto Segre, Rafael López Rangel. Architettura e territorio nell’America latina. Electa, Pages 290-291.

1977

Roberto Segre. Las estructuras ambientales de América Latina. University of Havana, Pages 258, 280.

References

Professor Emeritus Narciso G. Menocal.
University of Wisconsin, Department of Art History.
232 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building
800 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706
+1 608 263 2373
nmenocal@wisc.edu

Professor Roberto Gottardi.
Instituto Superior Politécnico “J. A. Echeverría”, Havana.
Faculty of Architecture
+537 881 0729
robertgot@cubarte.cult.cu

Professor Jesús Otí.
Univerity of Cantabria. Geographic Engineering and Graphic Expression Techniques Department..
Avda. de los Castros, 44
39005 Santander Cantabria
+34 942 201793
jesus.oti@unican.es