Alejandro de la Sota (architect)

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.

Works

 * Cruz Gallástegui Building, Galicia Biological Mission (1949) (Pontevedra)
 * Gobierno Civil (Tarragona) (1956-1963)
 * Talleres Aeronáuticos TABSA (Madrid) (1957-1958)
 * (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)
 * Pontevedra Municipal Sports Hall (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)