Francisco J. Serrano

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.

Works

Pasaje Polanco a.k.a. Pasaje Comercial along Avenida Presidente Masaryk in the Polanquito district of Polanco, built in 1938 in Colonial Californiano style

Buildings in Colonia Hipódromo, Condesa, Mexico City Edificio Basurto (1942-1945), 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