He was an outstanding urban planner and architect. As a professional he was the director of Architecture and Urbanism of the Cuban capital city, Director of the Group for the Integral Development of Havana, first president of the board for monuments in Havana. He designed houses and made projects for urban landscapes. His main contributions are  the ones related to the idea of thinking the architecture and the city in the context of the revolutionary changes. He also made contributions in the development of new architects, and promoted a conscious of preservation and recovery of an urban, social and cultural environment for a better quality of life. 

GROUP FOR THE INTEGRAL DEVELOPMENT OF HAVANA

It was officially created on May 27th, 1988. Among the aims of this group we can mention the creation of the basis for the Integral Development of the city of Havana. To elaborate a strategy for the urban development to improve the living conditions of the population was another of its aims. The Group includes advisers who are architects, engineers, sociologists, economists and other specialists of other fields interrelated with the urban development. In coordination with other state associations some studies are done by this group to solve the main problems of the city. In the same way workshops have been organized to study the integral transformation of specific neighborhoods of the Cuban capital city.  Some projects of great importance have also been advised from the architectural and engineers point of view by this Group. There is a big model of Havana city in the main building of the Group in Street 28 between Primera and Tercera, Miramar.