Alejandro de la Sota

Alejandro de la Sota Martínez (October 20, 1913 - 14 February 1996) was a Spanish architect. He was born in Pontevedra in Galicia. He graduated from the Technical University of Madrid in 1941 and, from 1956 to 1972 he was a professor there.

After graduation, de la Sota continued to live in Madrid, although he maintained links with his native Galicia. He was a promoter of the industrialisation of construction in the 1960s. His Maravillas School gymnasium of 1961 was the first steel-framed building in Madrid. Dora's buildings combine geometric rigor with constructive sincerity and a structural boldness of form that still surprises today.

De la Sota received the National Prize of Architecture and the Gold Medal of the Council of Architects.

Works

• Gobierno Civil (Tarragona) (1956-1963)
• Talleres Aeronáuticos TABSA (Madrid) (1957-1958)
• Maravillas School Gynamsium (Madrid) (1961)
• Block of houses (Salamanca) (1963)
• César Carlos Residential College (Madrid) (1967)
• Children's Summer Residence (Miraflores de la Sierra) (1957-1959)
• CLESA dairy processing plant (Madrid) (1963)
• Houses in calle del Prior (Salamanca) (1962-1963)
• CENIM Industrial Building (Madrid) (1965-1967)
• Pavillón Municipal dos Deportes de Pontevedra (1966)
• Caja de Ahorros Provincial Residential School (Ourense) (1966-1967)
• Classrooms and Seminaries of the University (Sevilla) (1972)
• Computer center of the Post Office (Madrid) (1973-1976)
• Banco Pastor (Pontevedra) (1974)
• Post Office and Telecommunications Building (León) (1980-1983)
• Caja Postal de Ahorros Building (Madrid) (1986-1989)
• University Library (Santiago de Compostela) (1990)
• Court buildings (Zaragoza) (1991-1993)
• Redesign and Restoration of Cabildo Insular Building (Las Palmas) (1994)

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