Alejandro de la Sota | |
Birth Name: | Alejandro de la Sota Martínez |
Birth Date: | 20 October 1913 |
Birth Place: | Pontevedra, Spain |
Death Place: | Madrid, Spain |
Alma Mater: | Superior Technical School of Architecture of the Technical University of Madrid |
Significant Buildings: | Pontevedra Municipal Sports Hall |
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.