Books By Kersten Geers, Jelena Pancevac, Moisés Puente, Alejandro de la Sota - Author

Alejandro de la Sota (1913 - 1996) was a Spanish architect. Born in Pontevedra in Galicia he graduated from the university in Madrid in 1941. He was a promoter of the industrialisation of construction in the 1960s and his Maravillas gymnasium of 1961 was the first steel-framed building in Madrid. He was appointed as architect at the National Colonization Institute, Directorate-General of the Postal Service, Aviaco and Iberia. He was a Senior Lecturer for 16 years at the Madrid School of Architecture and gave addresses and lectures at many architecture schools in Spain and abroad, most notably at Architectural Association London, Technische Universität München and Harvard University. He received the National Prize of Architecture and the Gold Medal of the Council of Architects.