Alejandro de la Sota Martínez (October 20, 1913 - 14 February 1996) was a Spanish

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

. He was born in

Pontevedra Pontevedra (, ) is a Spanish city in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula. It is the capital of both the ''Comarca'' (County) and Province of Pontevedra, and of the Rías Baixas in Galicia. It is also the capital of its own municipality whi ...

in Galicia. He graduated from the

Technical University of Madrid The Technical University of Madrid or sometimes called Polytechnic University of Madrid ( es, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, UPM) is a public university, located in Madrid, Spain. It was founded in 1971 as the result of merging different Te ...

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

* Cruz Gallástegui Building, Galicia Biological Mission (1949) (

) * Gobierno Civil (

Tarragona Tarragona (, ; Phoenician: ''Tarqon''; la, Tarraco) is a port city located in northeast Spain on the Costa Daurada by the Mediterranean Sea. Founded before the fifth century BC, it is the capital of the Province of Tarragona, and part of Tar ...

) (1956-1963) * Talleres Aeronáuticos TABSA (Madrid) (1957-1958) * (Madrid) (1961) * Block of houses (

Salamanca Salamanca () is a city in western Spain and is the capital of the Province of Salamanca in the autonomous community of Castile and León. The city lies on several rolling hills by the Tormes River. Its Old City was declared a UNESCO World Heritag ...

) (1963) * César Carlos Residential College (Madrid) (1967) * Children's Summer Residence (

Miraflores de la Sierra Miraflores de la Sierra is a town and municipality in the northern area of the autonomous Community of Madrid, in central Spain, of c. 6,000 inhabitants, located 49 kilometers away from Madrid. History Miraflores de la Sierra, formerly known as P ...

) (1957-1959) * CLESA dairy processing plant (Madrid) (1963) * Houses in calle del Prior (Salamanca) (1962-1963) * CENIM Industrial Building (Madrid) (1965-1967) *

Pontevedra Municipal Sports Hall The Pontevedra Municipal Sports Hall ''(Pabellón Municipal de los Deportes)'' is an arena in Pontevedra, Spain. It is primarily used for team handball and is the home arena of SD Teucro. The arena holds 4,000 people. It is located in the neighbo ...

(1966) * Caja de Ahorros Provincial Residential School (

Ourense Ourense (; es, Orense ) is a city and capital of the province of Ourense, located in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia, northwestern Spain. It is on the Camino Sanabrés path of the Way of St ...

) (1966-1967) * Classrooms and Seminaries of the University (

Sevilla Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spain, Spanish autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the Guadalquivir, River Gua ...

) (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 Santiago de Compostela is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, in northwestern Spain. The city has its origin in the shrine of Saint James the Great, now the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, as the destination of the Way of St ...

) (1990) * Court buildings (

Zaragoza Zaragoza, also known in English as Saragossa,''Encyclopædia Britannica'"Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)" is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributari ...

) (1991-1993) * Redesign and Restoration of Cabildo Insular Building (

Las Palmas Las Palmas (, ; ), officially Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is a Spain, Spanish city and capital of Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands, on the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital (jointly with Santa Cruz de Tenerife), the most populous city in th ...

) (1994)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sota, Alejandro De La 1913 births 1996 deaths People from Pontevedra Polytechnic University of Madrid alumni 20th-century Spanish architects Architects from Galicia (Spain)