2G #87. Alejandro de la Sota -

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Résumé :
Alejandro de la Sota ruft in Spanien wahrscheinlich mehr leidenschaftliche Reaktionen hervor als jeder andere moderne spanische Architekt. Sein Werk ist Gegenstand von vielen Pilgerreisen, die Architekten und Studenten auf der Suche nach der einzigartigen Arbeitsweise des Meisters, nach einer Begegnung mit einer fast magischen Offenbarung unternehmen. Obwohl er in Spanien so ?beraus gesch?tzt, ist er im Ausland ziemlich unbekannt. Diese Ausgabe von 2G pr?sentiert eine Auswahl von Geb?uden und Projekten dieses vergessenen modernen Meisters, von seinen ersten Werken, die nach dem spanischen B?rgerkrieg gebaut wurden, wie das Dorf Esquivel, ?ber seine Meisterwerke, wie die Sporthalle der Schule Maravillas und das Geb?ude der Provinzregierung in Tarragona, bis hin zu seinen sp?teren, weniger bekannten Werken, wie das Postgeb?ude in Le?n oder die nicht gebauten H?user am Meer auf Mallorca. Introduction: Kersten Geers, Jelena Pancevac and Mois?s Puente. Text: Alejandro de la Sota....

Biographie:
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 Universit?t M?nchen and Harvard University. He received the National Prize of Architecture and the Gold Medal of the Council of Architects....

Sommaire:
Alejandro de la Sota probably arouses more impassioned responses in Spain than any other modern Spanish architect. His work is the subject of pilgrimages by architects and students looking for a unique way of working, an encounter with an almost magical revelation. Although he is a very well-known modern master in Spain, his is quite unknown abroad. This 2G issue presents a selection of building and projects of this forgotten modern master, from his first works built after the Spanish Civil War, as Esquivel village, to his master pieces, like the Maravillas school sports hall and the Provincial Government Building in Tarragona, and his later, not so known works as the Post Office building in Le?n or the unbuilt houses by the see in Mallorca....