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Francisco J. 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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Works
Edificio Basurto
Edificio México
Pasaje Polanco a.k.a. Pasaje Comercial along
Avenida Presidente Masaryk in the Polanquito district of
Polanco , built in 1938 in
Colonial Californiano style
Edificio Centro Olímpico /
Former Aeroméxico Headquarters Building
Nameplate at
Edificio Centro Olímpico /
Former Aeroméxico Headquarters Building
Buildings in Colonia Hipódromo,
Condesa , Mexico City
Edificio Basurto (1942-1945),
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Edificio México (1932)
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Laredo 5 (1933)
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Laredo 22 (1942, 1971, 1985)
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Nuevo León 68 (1952)
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Cine Auditorio Plaza (with Fernando Pineda), (corner of Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, and Juan Escutia)
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Edificio Confort
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Edificio ACRO (1937), corner of Insurgentes and Quintana Roo
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Edificio Insurgentes or Glorieta (1938), corner of Insurgentes and Chilpancingo
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Chilpancingo 39
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Edificio "Casas Jardínes" (1928-1930), Amsterdam 285 corner of Sonora
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Other buildings
Faculty of Engineering (UNAM) at the
Ciudad Universitaria (
UNAM "University City"), Mexico City (collaboration with
Fernando Pineda and
Luis MacGregor Krieger ), 1953
References
International National Artists Other