Alejandro de la Sota Martínez

Alejandro de la Sota Martínez studied at Technical University of Madrid and Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid. Rafael Tamarit Pitarch is recorded as having studied under Alejandro de la Sota Martínez. The recorded working language is Spanish. Works named in the authority record are Municipal Sports Hall of Pontevedra, Gimnasio del Colegio Maravillas and Gobierno Civil de Tarragona. Distinctions recorded are Castelao Medal and National Architecture Award of Spain.

• Name — Alejandro de la Sota • Birth Name — Alejandro de la Sota Martínez • Born — 20 October 1913 • Birthplace — Pontevedra, Spain • Died — 14 February 1996 • Place of death — Madrid, Spain • Education — Superior Technical School of Architecture of the Technical University of Madrid • Significant Buildings — Pontevedra Municipal Sports Hall

He was born in Pontevedra in Galicia. At the University of Santiago de Compostela, his studies were in mathematics. He graduated from the Technical University of Madrid in 1941. From 1956 to 1972, he was a professor at the Technical University of Madrid. 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.

• 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)