Luis Gutiérrez Soto
Biography
Born on 6 June 1900 in the {{ill|Calle de Villanueva|es}},{{Sfn|Baldellou|1973|p=7}} 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.{{Sfn|Baldellou|1973|p=13}} His first noted project was the Cine Callao (1926).{{Cite journal|url=https://www.elconfidencial.com/cultura/2019-09-10/gutierrez-soto-arquitectura-madrid-modernismo_2210063/|journal=El Confidencial|title=El arquitecto que se hinchó a meter goles con el Madrid y después construyó media ciudad|date=10 September 2019|first=Alfredo|last=Pascual}}
Once a follower of the rationalist architectural style, he reinvented himself during the Francoist dictatorship (1939–1975), adapting to the traditionalist aesthetics promoted by the regime, and became a representative of the neo-herrerian francoist style.{{Cite journal|url=https://elpais.com/ccaa/2016/10/31/madrid/1477940466_455769.html|title=El Madrid de Franco|first=Sergio C.|last=Fanjul|date=1 November 2016|journal=El País}}
He died in Madrid on 4 February 1977.{{Cite journal|url=http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1978/02/03/080.html|journal=ABC|title=Esquela|date=3 February 1978|location=Madrid|page=80}} He was buried in the Mingorrubio Cemetery in El Pardo.{{Cite journal|url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/local/madrid/20190321/461136815238/otros-muertos-ilustres-cementerio-pardo-franco-valle-de-los-caidos.html|journal=La Vanguardia|title=Los otros 'inquilinos ilustres' del cementerio del Pardo|date=21 March 2019|first=Asier|last=Martiarena}} With a period of activity spanning along six decades, he delivered over 650 projects, most of them in Madrid.
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- {{Cite book|url=http://oa.upm.es/46781/1/1973_soto_MAB.pdf|title=Luis Gutiérrez Soto|publisher=Servicio de Publicaciones del Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Secretaría General Técnica|location=Madrid|last=Baldellou|first=Miguel Ángel|year=1973}}
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Category:20th-century Spanish architects
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