On Friday, November 21, our School will host a lecture by Dr. Architect Luis López Díaz, former Structures professor and a prominent figure in touristic and industrial architecture in the Canary Islands.
Luis López Díaz, who graduated from the School of Architecture of Barcelona, has combined an intense and renowned professional career as an architect with his teaching activity as a professor in the Construction Department of the School of Architecture of Las Palmas.
His professional trajectory, which began in the early 1970s, stands out especially in the field of touristic architecture, with projects such as the Santa Mónica Apartments, the Jardín del Atlántico Apartments, the Gloria Palace San Agustín Hotel and Thalassotherapy Center, the Gloria Palace Amadores Hotel, the Riu Palmeras Hotel, and several hotel developments in Anfi del Mar.
He has also carried out significant projects in the industrial sector, including the Frigo-Canarias Factory (1974) and the Miller Bajo car repair workshop, as well as the design of the social halls of the Club Natación Metropole in Las Palmas.
Some of his works have been published in specialized journals such as Informes de la Construcción, Basa, Star (Structural Architecture), and Cuaderns d’Arquitectura i Urbanisme.