Gutiérrez Dorta House

Santa Cruz de Tenerife · Category: Architecture · Subcategory: Civil architecture · Year: 1948 · Authors: Tomás Machado y Méndez Fernández de Lugo

This building may be the most significant of those erected on Pérez de Rozas Street in the mid-1940s, in the immediate post-war period; all constructions built under the premises of neo-Canarian or regionalist typology, so common in those years in Santa Cruz.

The project was drafted by the architect Tomás Machado and Méndez Fernández de Lugo in 1948 for the owner Aurora Gutiérrez Dorta.

It is a large four-storey residential building located in one of the most exclusive residential areas of the time, where doctors, pharmacists and prestigious lawyers usually lived. The façade of the building features a series of elements and ornaments that heavily embellish it: entrance door with pinewood panels, framed in stone with a cornice; stone cladding on the plinth; first floor with a central stone balcony; second floor with a continuous wooden balcony covered with Arabic tile; and third floor with a double window separated by a spiralled Solomonic stone column. At the top stands a segmental arch and the finishing with a central tower covered with tiles and wooden pergolas on the sides. Everything ends in a curious pinewood lattice.

The Gutiérrez Dorta House is a clear example of regionalist architecture carried out in the city in the mid-20th century. The trend at that time was a return to native forms with Baroque touches, using numerous elements of the traditional architecture of the islands.

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