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.

This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is de la Sota and the second or maternal family name is Martínez.
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
NationalitySpanish
Alma materSuperior Technical School of Architecture of the Technical University of Madrid
OccupationArchitect
BuildingsPavillón Municipal dos Deportes de Pontevedra
Maravillas School Gynamsium

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)
  • The exterior of the Maravillas School Gymnasium (Madrid)
  • The interior of the Maravillas School Gymnasium
  • Pavillón Municipal dos Deportes (Pontevedra)
  • Gobierno Civil (Tarragona)
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