Francisco J. Serrano y Alvarez de la Rosa (March 12, 1900 in

Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital city, capital and primate city, largest city of Mexico, and the List of North American cities by population, most populous city in North Amer ...

– December 3, 1982 in Mexico City) was a Mexican civil engineer and architect. Serrano studied

civil engineering Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewa ...

and afterwards architecture at the

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...

(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 José Juan Francisco Alfonso Serrano Cacho (b. Mexico City, October 30, 1937) is a Mexican architect. Biography Serrano was son of the architect Francisco J. Serrano. He studied at Universidad Iberoamericana until 1960. Afterwards he worked t ...

became also a notable architect.''Francisco Serrano''
at arquitectura MEXICANA.

Works

Buildings in Colonia Hipódromo,
Condesa Condesa or La Condesa is an area in the Cuauhtémoc Borough of Mexico City, south of Zona Rosa and 4 to 5 km west of the Zócalo, the city's main square. It is immediately west of Colonia Roma, together with which it is designated as ...
, 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

* Edificio Royalty (1936) * Pasaje Polanco, originally called Pasaje Comercial, Polanco * Faculty of Engineering (UNAM) at the Ciudad Universitaria (

UNAM The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigge ...

"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 Paseo de la Reforma (translated as "Promenade of the Reform") is a wide avenue that runs diagonally across the heart of Mexico City. It was designed at the behest of Emperor Maximilian by Ferdinand von Rosenzweig during the era of the Secon ...

445,

http://www.edemx.com/citymex/edificios/R445.html * Cine Teresa (1942), Eje Central Lázaro Cárdenas

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Serrano, Francisco J. Mexican civil engineers Modernist architects from Mexico 1900 births 1982 deaths Architects from Mexico City Condesa National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico 20th-century Mexican architects

Works

Buildings in Colonia Hipódromo, Condesa Condesa or La Condesa is an area in the Cuauhtémoc Borough of Mexico City, south of Zona Rosa and 4 to 5 km west of the Zócalo, the city's main square. It is immediately west of Colonia Roma, together with which it is designated as ..., Mexico City

Other buildings

References

Buildings in Colonia Hipódromo,
Condesa Condesa or La Condesa is an area in the Cuauhtémoc Borough of Mexico City, south of Zona Rosa and 4 to 5 km west of the Zócalo, the city's main square. It is immediately west of Colonia Roma, together with which it is designated as ...
, Mexico City