Alejandro de la Sota (architect)

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Alejandro de la Sota
Born
Alejandro de la Sota Martínez

(1913-10-20)20 October 1913
Pontevedra, Spain
Died14 February 1996(1996-02-14) (aged 82)
Madrid, Spain
Alma mater Superior Technical School of Architecture of the Technical University of Madrid
OccupationArchitect
Buildings Pontevedra Municipal Sports Hall
Maravillas School Gynamsium  [ es ]

Alejandro de la Sota Martínez (Galicia, 1913 - 1996) [1] was a Spanish architect.

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Biography

He was born in Pontevedra in Galicia. At the University of Santiago de Compostela, his studies were in mathematics. [1] He graduated from the Technical University of Madrid [1] in 1941.

From 1956 to 1972, he was a professor at the Technical University of Madrid.

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.

Awards and honours

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

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Davies, Colin (2006). Key Houses of the Twentieth Century: Plans, Sections and Elevations. Laurence King Publishing. ISBN   978-1-85669-463-6 . Retrieved 6 November 2024.