Casa Timothy James Ennis
Richardo Porro
Nuevo Vedado, Havana
1957
Porro’s house for Timothy James Ennis, also in the Nuevo Vedado, was the last house he built in Cuba before his self-imposed exile to Venezuela where he became a Professor at the University of Caracas until 1960. Here, hard straight lines and a single sloped roof contrast with the curvilinear walls and volumes below. Resting on a rock wall, the house lacks the delicateness and transparency of the earlier Abad house, and not surprisingly, the waterspout resembles a male penis.
