This May, visitors were allowed into Havana's long-defunct Tallapiedra electric plant for the first time since it was shuttered in the 1960s. They could climb the grated stairs to the plant's nave, see how the light glinted off unchipped white and green tiles set in place in 1915, how tiny, stalky trees had grown out of clumps of dirt where machinery once sat, how the high, church-like central space and the split-level, open workspaces on one side might be adapted to any number of uses. The openingfor locals and some of the thousands of tourists in Cuba for the Twelfth Havana Biennialwas the work of Claudia Castillo and Orlando Inclán, and their eight-year-old think tank, Habana Re-Generación.
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