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degli Studi di Firenze and carried out numerous architectural restorations, in parallel with research works and
published texts.
Rosa Natalia Rodríguez Pellerano (August 18, 1955)
. Università degli Studi di Firenze, Centro Studi Re-
stauro Monumenti e Centri Storici 1981, Collegio degli Ingegneri della Toscana. She also studied in the Italian
Language Course for Foreigners in Perugia.
Alfredo Marranzini Pérez (October 25, 1955).
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Centro Studi Restau-
ro Monumenti e Centri Storici, 1980, Palazzo Rucellai campus. Thesis: “Restauro della Loggia dei Bianchi,
Firenze” (Restoration of the Loggia dei Banchi, Florence). He graduated with a degree in architecture from
UNPHU April 1979. He has been director of the School of Interior Design at the School of Architecture and
Arts at UNPHU and has carried out various private residential, commercial, and interior architecture projects.
Manolita Miguel (November 3, 1955)
. Università degli Studi di Firenze, Centro Studi Restauro Monu-
menti e Centri Storici, 1981, Collegio degli Ingegneri della Toscana campus. She also studied in the Italian
Language Course for Foreigners in Perugia.
Gustavo Luis Moré Guaschino (May 3, 1956).
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Centro Studi Restauro
Monumenti e Centri Storici, 1980, Palazzo Rucellai campus. Thesis: “Restauro della Loggia dei Bianchi, Firen-
ze” (Restoration of the Loggia dei Banchi, Florence). He graduated with a degree in architecture fromUNPHU
in April 1979. He is the son of Mariuccia Guaschino de Moré, who was an official of the Italian Embassy in the
Dominican Republic for more than 40 years, and who is remembered by several of those whose names appear
herein for having been instrumental in processing the scholarships for Dominican students so that they could
transfer to Italy. He was director of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at UNPHU and director of
the OPC Cultural Assets Inventory Center. He has been the winner of numerous design competitions and bi-
ennial awards, including those for the headquarters of the Supreme Court of Justice and the National Library.
He was founder and first president of the Dominican DoCoMoMo (Study Group for the Documentation and
Conservation of the Architecture of the Modern Movement), and has authored several noteworthy books on
architecture and urbanism in the Caribbean and the Dominican Republic. He has been director and editor of
the journal
Archivos de Arquitectura Antillana
since 1996.
Fernando González (April 15, 1957).
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Centro Studi Restauro Monumen-
ti e Centri Storici, 1985, Collegio degli Ingegneri della Toscana campus. Italian Language Course for Foreign-
ers in Perugia. Thesis: “Capella Bellosguardo.” He worked from 1986 - 1989 at the Office of Cultural Heritage,
and at the Office of the Regulatory Plan for the Colonial Zone of Santo Domingo. He has devoted himself to
the design and construction of homes and commercial premises.
George Latour Heinsen (December 12, 1957).
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Centro Studi Restauro
Monumenti e Centri Storici, Collegio degli Ingegneri della Toscana campus. Italian Language Course for
Foreigners in Perugia. Istituto di Architettura e Urbanismo di Venezia, 1985-1998. Latour had a long, rich
and productive sojourn in Italy, which began with the course on restoration in Florence, then as a PhD stu-
dent at the renowned Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning in Venice (Università IUAV di Venezia)
and then as a collaborator in the Vittorio Gregotti studio in Milan for 12 years. Since his arrival in Florence,
he maintained an excellent relationship with the director of the program, Gennaro Tampone, for whom he
served as an assistant in the same course for four years. In Venice, he was a student of Manfredo Tafuri, a great
philosopher, historian, writer, and professor, among other noteworthy professors. His professional stint with
Gregotti left an imprint on his architectural approach and style. He has carried out work in the Dominican
Republic of continually greater stature.
José Mejía (December 19, 1957).
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Centro Studi Restauro Monumenti e
Centri Storici, 1982, Collegio degli Ingegneri della Toscana campus. Italian Language Course for Foreigners
in Perugia. He was designated Liaison between the National District City Council and the Office of Cultural
Heritage (1984), and consultant for the improvements to the Monument to the Restoration in Santiago de los
Caballeros (2007).
THE ITALIAN TRAINING OF MODERN DOMINICAN ARCHITECTS, 1950 - 2019