Luis Gutiérrez Soto (1900–1977) 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 worked primarily in

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Biography

Born on 6 June 1900 in the , Madrid, Spain. After earning a degree in 1923, he became Chief Architect of the Ministry of Public Instruction, delivering a profuse number of projects of schools until 1929. His first noted project was the Cine Callao (1926). Once a follower of the rationalist architectural style, he reinvented himself during the

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(1939–1975), adapting to the traditionalist aesthetics promoted by the regime, and became a representative of the neo-

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francoist style. He died in Madrid on 4 February 1977. He was buried in the

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. With a period of activity spanning along six decades, he delivered over 650 projects, most of them in Madrid.

References

;Citations ;Bibliography * 1900 births 1977 deaths 20th-century Spanish architects Burials at Mingorrubio Cemetery {{Spain-architect-stub