Antonio Fernandez Alba (Salamanca, 1927), architect and academic of the RAE, left his mark on the city of Salamanca and his works are numerous in Salamanca territory. …
Of the Rollo convent (1962), Architecture Prize of 1963, the man from Salamanca mentions that it was a “kind” work. The building, by express criteria of the religious community, had to respond to an eminently traditional character in terms of construction methods, with large walls of sandstone ashlars, characteristic of Salamancan buildings.
Fernández Alba was also satisfied with the Hernán Cortés Residence Hall (1974), on Paseo de San Vicente, which was remodeled internally in 2009, but which maintains its robust exterior volumes, which responded to a complicated topography. Antonio Fernández Alba, who in 1989 entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, has also received the Castilla y León Prize for the Arts (1988), the Gold Medal for Architecture (2002), the Gold Medal for the City of Salamanca (2002), the National Architecture Award for professional career (2003) and the Medal of Honor from the Menéndez Pelayo International University (2004).
Although he moved to Madrid at the age of 20, the architect he kept his relationship with Salamanca alive although he confesses that he has not returned to his hometown in years.
