Alejandro de la Sota, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alejandro de la Sota

Spanish architect

Date of Birth: 20-Oct-1913

Place of Birth: Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain

Date of Death: 14-Feb-1996

Profession: architect

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Libra

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.