Alejandro de la Sota is unanimously considered one of the Spanish Masters of the Second Modernity and his legacy, far from losing importance, seems to grow over time, as Miguel Ángel Baldellou and José Manuel López Peláez had already intuited, at first, and international critics such as: Kenneth Frampton or William Curtis, have analyzed afterwards.
The term legacy in architecture is not easy to define and when we analyze the masters of the 20th century it is really dificult to define. A term that, in the case of Alejandro de la Sota, as in that of other architects with a great teaching vocation, we can and must also associate with the evolutionary validity of his ideas and his work methodology.
This article investigates the conceptual origin of the projects for the Domínguez house and the houses for Alcudia and seeks to exemplify how, with these two iconic domestic proposals, Alejandro de la Sota tried to show and explain his conceptual work methodology. at the beginning of the 80´s.
A conceptual methodology and an ideology that perhaps continue to be the most interesting and important elements of his teaching.