Luis Gutiérrez Soto
Luis Gutiérrez Soto was a Spanish architect. He worked primarily in Madrid.Biography
Born on 6 June 1900 in the, Madrid, Spain. After earning a degree in 1923, he became Chief Architect of the Ministry of Public Instruction, delivering a profuse number of projects of schools until 1929. His first noted project was the .
Once a follower of the rationalist architectural style, he reinvented himself during the Francoist dictatorship, adapting to the traditionalist aesthetics promoted by the regime, and became a representative of the neo-herrerian francoist style.
He died in Madrid on 4 February 1977. He was buried in the, in El Pardo. With a period of activity spanning along six decades, he delivered over 650 projects, most of them in Madrid.
