Antonio Fernández Alba tried to get to know international modernity in a time that was trying to emerge from the darkness of the postwar period during the fifties and sixties. He would travel to visit the work of Alvar Aalto and was able to meet Louis Kahn, architects and Architectures who would have a great influence on his work. After finishing his studies he would quickly be recognized with the National Architecture Prize, in 1963, for the project of the Convento del Rollo in Salamanca.
His career includes projects such as the School of Architecture of Valladolid, the Faculty of Law of the Autonomous University of Madrid, the Campus of the Jaime I University of Castellón, the amphitheatre of the Park of Nations, Madrid, the Municipal Mortuary of the M -30 or the CSIC Biological Research Center, also in Madrid. Among his works, restorations such as that of the old San Carlos hospital stand out for its transformation into the Reina Sofía Museum.
Professor of Elements of Composition at the Higher Technical School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, he received an honorary doctorate from the universities of Valladolid, Alcalá de Henares and the Polytechnic of Cartagena.
Among his many awards, he received the National Restoration Prize in 1981, he was a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando since 1986, he received the National Restoration Prize in 1980, the Gold Medal of the Menéndez Pelayo International University of Santander in 2001. , the Gold Medal of the Superior Council of Colleges of Architects of Spain, in 2002), and the National Architecture Award for professional career (2003).
Among his writings and books, an insatiable collection of creating poetry in architecture, culture and intelligence can be found: «El diseño entre la teoría y la praxis»,1971), «Domus Aurea. Diálogos en la casa de Virgilio» 1997, «De varia restauratione: intervenciones en el patrimonio arquitectónico»,1999, «Espacios de la norma. Lugares de invención», 2000, «La ciudad herida, 2001», «El Escorial, metáfora en piedra» 2004, «Las primaveras de Ilión» 2010, «Libro de Fabricas y visiones recogido del imaginario de un arquitecto fin de siglo 1957-2010», 2011.
His career includes projects such as the School of Architecture of Valladolid, the Faculty of Law of the Autonomous University of Madrid, the Campus of the Jaime I University of Castellón, the amphitheatre of the Park of Nations, Madrid, the Municipal Mortuary of the M -30 or the CSIC Biological Research Center, also in Madrid. Among his works, restorations such as that of the old San Carlos hospital stand out for its transformation into the Reina Sofía Museum.
Professor of Elements of Composition at the Higher Technical School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, he received an honorary doctorate from the universities of Valladolid, Alcalá de Henares and the Polytechnic of Cartagena.
Among his many awards, he received the National Restoration Prize in 1981, he was a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando since 1986, he received the National Restoration Prize in 1980, the Gold Medal of the Menéndez Pelayo International University of Santander in 2001. , the Gold Medal of the Superior Council of Colleges of Architects of Spain, in 2002), and the National Architecture Award for professional career (2003).
Among his writings and books, an insatiable collection of creating poetry in architecture, culture and intelligence can be found: «El diseño entre la teoría y la praxis»,1971), «Domus Aurea. Diálogos en la casa de Virgilio» 1997, «De varia restauratione: intervenciones en el patrimonio arquitectónico»,1999, «Espacios de la norma. Lugares de invención», 2000, «La ciudad herida, 2001», «El Escorial, metáfora en piedra» 2004, «Las primaveras de Ilión» 2010, «Libro de Fabricas y visiones recogido del imaginario de un arquitecto fin de siglo 1957-2010», 2011.
