The Arco de la Victoria (1956) celebrates the victory of the Nationalist forces led by General Francisco Franco over the Republicans.

In 1910 he submitted a plan for a proposed concert hall for orchestra and choral performances for his final examination, and passed with high marks.

[2] López Otero was always interested in teaching, and in 1916 was appointed professor of Projects at the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid.

[5] After studying several famous universities in Europe, López Otero led a team to North America in November 1927 where they visited Yale, Harvard, M.I.T.

The campus covered 320 hectares (790 acres) on a site in the western margin of Madrid, on a plan that drew much from American models.

[7] The building designs were influenced by European avant-garde architecture of the period, and the overall layout kept the campus closely integrated with the city of Madrid.

[4] In 1934 Manuel Sánchez Arcas and the engineer Eduardo Torroja founded the Instituto Técnico de la Construcción y Edificación (ITCE, Technical Institute of Construction and Building).