He was the first architect to be part of the Royal Spanish Academy
The architect Antonio Fernández RAE
The Salamanca architect Antonio Fernandez Alba He died today at the age of 96. Awarded the National Architecture Prize and the National Restoration Prize, he was the first architect to be part of the Royal Spanish Academy. Considered one of the main architects … Spaniards of the second half of the 20th century, he was also an academic of Fine Arts from San Fernando, Gold Medal for Architecture from the Superior Council of the Colleges of Architects of Spain and Gold Medal from the city of Salamanca, among other important distinctions.
Among his works are the Campus of the Jaime I University of Castellón, the amphitheater of the Park of Nations of Madrid and the CSIC Biological Research Center, also in Madrid. In addition, projects such as the Colleges of Nuestra Señora Santa María and Monfort in Madrid; the Monasterio del Rollo, the convent of the Discalced Carmelites and the Colegio Mayor Hernán Cortés (all of them in Salamanca); he Municipal Mortuary of the M-30 in Madrid and the School of Architecture of Valladolid, among others.
Among his restoration works, the Convento del Rollo (1958-1962) in Salamanca stands out; that of the National Astronomical Observatory; the recovery of the old San Carlos Hospital for its transformation into the Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum (1980-1986), and the restoration of the Plaza Mayor of Salamanca (1983).
Born in 1927 in Salamanca, he graduated in 1957 from the Madrid School of Architecture and received his doctorate in 1963. He was member of the group ‘El Paso’. His early works are related to the organicist architectural currents of Frank Lloyd Wright and Alvar Aalto. Along with his role as an architect, his role as a renowned intellectual stands out. He is the author of books such as ‘Design, between theory and praxis’, ‘The crisis of contemporary architecture in Spain’, ‘Chronicles of lost space’, or ‘The wounded city’.
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