Francisco J. Serrano
Serrano y Alvarez de la Rosa (March 12, 1900 in Mexico City – December 3, 1982 in Mexico City) was a Mexican civil engineer and architect. Serrano studied civil engineering and afterwards architecture at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), where later taught as professor of civil engineering and architecture, and researched influences of climatic phenomenons on architecture. His son J. Francisco Serrano Cacho became also a notable architect.
Also recorded as J. Francisco Serrano · Francisco José Serrano · Francisco Jose Serrano
Francisco J. Serrano
- Name
- Francisco J.
- Born
- 12 March 1900
- Birthplace
- Mexico City
- Died
- 3 December 1982
- Education
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- Nationality
- Mexico
- Occupation
- civil engineer · architect · painter · university teacher
- Known for
- Edificio México
- Languages
- Spanish
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Serrano y Alvarez de la Rosa (March 12, 1900 in Mexico City – December 3, 1982 in Mexico City) was a Mexican civil engineer and architect. Serrano studied civil engineering and afterwards architecture at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), where later taught as professor of civil engineering and architecture, and researched influences of climatic phenomenons on architecture. His son J. Francisco Serrano Cacho became also a notable architect.
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• Name — Francisco J. Serrano • Born — 12 March 1900 • Birthplace — Mexico City • Died — 3 December 1982 • Place of death — Mexico City • Education — Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Works
Works
• Illustration — Edificio Basurto • Illustration — Edificio México • Illustration — Pasaje Polanco a.k.a. Pasaje Comercial along Avenida Presidente Masaryk in the Polanquito district of Polanco, built in 1938 in Colonial Californiano style • Illustration — Edificio Centro Olímpico/Former Aeroméxico Headquarters Building • Illustration — Nameplate at Edificio Centro Olímpico/Former Aeroméxico Headquarters Building
Buildings in Colonia Hipódromo, Condesa, Mexico City
Buildings in Colonia Hipódromo, Condesa, Mexico City
• Edificio Basurto (1942-1945), • Edificio México (1932) • Laredo 5 (1933) • Laredo 22 (1942, 1971, 1985) • Nuevo León 68 (1952) • Cine Auditorio Plaza (with Fernando Pineda), (corner of Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, and Juan Escutia) • Edificio Confort • Edificio ACRO (1937), corner of Insurgentes and Quintana Roo • Edificio Insurgentes or Glorieta (1938), corner of Insurgentes and Chilpancingo • Chilpancingo 39 • Edificio "Casas Jardínes" (1928-1930), Amsterdam 285 corner of Sonora
Other buildings
Other buildings
• Illustration — Faculty of Engineering (UNAM) at the Ciudad Universitaria (UNAM "University City"), Mexico City (collaboration with Fernando Pineda and Luis MacGregor Krieger), 1953 • Edificio Royalty (1936) • Pasaje Polanco, originally called Pasaje Comercial, Polanco • Faculty of Engineering (UNAM) at the Ciudad Universitaria (UNAM "University City"), Mexico City (collaboration with Fernando Pineda and Luis MacGregor Krieger), 1953 • Edificio Centro Olímpico/Former Aeroméxico Headquarters Building (1967-8, together with Luis MacGregor Krieger and Fernando Pineda), razed 2018, Paseo de la Reforma 445, Mexico City • Cine Teresa (1942), Eje Central Lázaro Cárdenas
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1900
Francisco J. Serrano was born in 1900 at Mexico City.
1982
Francisco J. Serrano died in 1982 at Mexico City.
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