Alejandro de la Sota (architect) explained

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.

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