Armando Sol Estévez

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Armando Sol Estévez (born October 14, 1909 in Santa Tecla , † May 6, 1983 in San Salvador ) was a Salvadoran architect and diplomat.

Life

Armando Sol Estévez was the son of Teresa Esteves Calderon (born December 9, 1883 in Santa Tecla ) and Antonio Enrique Sol Castillo (born July 15, 1871 in Moncagua, San Miguel (El Salvador) ; † October 31, 1941 in San Salvador) .

He was married to Hilda Trujillo.

Cihuatan floor plan. Armando Sol Estévez is one of the pioneers of archeology in El Salvador. He recognized the archaeological sites Cihuatán and Teresa Estévez.

In 1927 he graduated from the Instituto Nacional de Soyapango . In 1933 he completed a degree in architecture from the École supérieure des arts Saint-Luc in Brussels . From 1933 to 1934 he completed a postgraduate course in reinforced concrete at the Complutense University of Madrid and met Joaquín Vaquero Palacios , who influenced his architectural work. From 1935 he was an architect in San Salvador, where one of his first works was the design for El Siglo , a department store for men’s clothing on Calle Arce between the Treasury building and the Papini department store .

From 1940 to 1960 he was employed in the foreign service. In 1957 he was appointed ambassador to Caracas, where he performed the duties of the protecting power El Salvador while the government in Santiago de Chile had ceased diplomatic relations with the government in Caracas . On May 13, 1959, he was accredited as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Italian Government and on June 3, 1959 to the Government of Tel Aviv as Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire , based at 13 Via Guidubaldo del Monte in Rome .

predecessor Office successor
Alberto Machado Gomez Salvadoran Ambassador to Caracas
1957 to 1958
Hugo Roberto Carrillo
Amedeo Sesostris Canessa Salvadoran Ambassador to Rome
May 13, 1959 to 1960
Roberto Cordero d'Aubuisson

Individual evidence

  1. Víctor Manuel Rivas Merino, 10 de Julio de 2013, [1] in Revista de Museología “Kóot” El legado graphical arquitectónico de Armando Sol