Alejandro Lapunzina, Architecture of Spain (2005) Reference Guides to National Architecture
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The grandstand for Madrid's Hipodrómo de La Zarzuela (the city's horse racetrack) is Eduardo Torroja's masterpiece and one of Spain's most important architectural works of the 1930s. The building complex was... designed by the architectural office of Carlos Arniches and Martín Domínguez in collaboration with internationally well-known civil engineer Eduardo Torroja, who with Robert Maillard, Eugene Freyssenet, and Pier Luigi Nervi is considered a pioneer in the design of concrete structures. The Grandstand for La Zarzuela Racetrack is the best-known work of Arniches and Domínguez, as well as Torroja's most important architectural work—among many other brilliant structures that he conceived—to the point that it is credited only to him.

— Alejandro Lapunzina

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Eduardo Torroja

About Eduardo Torroja

Eduardo Torroja y Miret, (27 August 1899 – 15 June 1961) was a Spanish structural engineer and a pioneer in the design of concrete thin-shell structures.