Isabel Rigol

Isabel Rigol Savio is a graduate from the School of Architecture, Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Echeverría (ISPJAE), Havana, 1968, who received post- graduate courses on Urban Design, Urban Rehabilitation, Physical Planning and Historic Preservation in Cuba as well as Conservation of Historic Towns at ICCROM, Rome. She has a Master Degree and a PhD from ISPJAE, Havana.

Currently, Isabel Rigol is a professor at the PhD Course on Heritage Management sponsored by the University of Granada , Spain , the Havana School of Architecture and the San Jeronimo University in Old Havana. She also teaches Heritage Management in the Master Course on Territorial and Urban Planning and Historic Preservation at both post graduate and undergraduate levels.

Mrs. Rigol has worked as a consultant for the UNESCO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean from 2006 to 2008 in order to implement a Capacity Building Project for Cultural Heritage in the Caribbean ( CCBP) . With this purpose, she has been part of the team that worked out a training program with modules on World Heritage Convention, Historic Towns and Cultural Landscapes, among the main subjects. In 2008 she was invited to offer a CCBP course in the Dominican Republic.

As the founder and Director of the National Center for Conservation, Restoration and Museology (a UNESCO/ UNDP project) in Havana, from 1982 to 1997, she led training programs as well as important conservation projects for monumental districts and buildings.

Rigol has lectured extensively in Europe( Instituto Universitario di Archittetura di Venezia , Royal Institute of British Architects and Leeds University, UK) , Institute of Fine Arts in Hamburg, etc ), United States ( Tulane University, University of Pennsylvania, and others ) Latin America and the Caribbean.