Alejandro de la Sota

The exterior of the Maravillas College Gymnasium

The interior of the Maravillas College Gymnasium

Pavillón Municipal dos Deportes de Pontevedra.

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 university in Madrid in 1941 and, from 1956 to 1972 was a professor there.

From his graduation, Sota lived in Madrid, although maintained links with his native Galicia. He was a promoter of industrialisation of construction in the 1960s; his Maravillas gymnasium of 1961 was the first steel framed building in Madrid. The buildings of Sota combine geometric rigor with constructive sincerity and a structural boldness of form that still surprises today.

Sota received the National Prize of Architecture and the Gold medal of the Council of Architects.

Works

• Gobierno Civil (Tarragona) (1956-1963)
• Talleres Aeronáuticos TABSA (Madrid) (1957-1958)
• Maravillas College Gynamsium (Madrid) (1961)
• Block of Houses (Salamanca) (1963)
• Colegio Mayor César Carlos (Madrid) (1967)
• Residencia de Verano Infantil (Miraflores de la Sierra, Madrid) (1957-1959)
• Central Lechera CLESA (Madrid) (1963)
• Viviendas en calle del Prior (Salamanca) (1962-1963)
• Edificio Industrial CENIM (Madrid) (1965-1967)
• Pavillón Municipal dos Deportes de Pontevedra (1966)
• Colegio Residencia Caja de Ahorros Provincial (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)
• Edificio Caja Postal de Ahorros (Madrid) (1986-1989)
• University Library (Santiago de Compostela) (1990)
• Court buildings (Zaragoza) (1991-1993)
• Rediseño y Rehabilitación del Edificio del Cabildo Insular (Las Palmas) (1994)