Licón Engineer Alejandro Calderon was the author of many important buildings in his time, as the governor's house Quevedo, Avenue Cuauhtémoc, compared to Building Business in 1936, the old building of The Herald, on the streets Aldama and 15 th, to Colonel José García Valseca; work laying pipe for the introduction of drinking water, through his company, "Building Urban Calderón" , social housing front of the headquarters of the Fifth Military Zone.
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Market Avalos built houses for workers and the American Smelting (Asarco), and the school in the American colony of the town, in 1950, leaving out the Social Club buildings price, not a few building of urban subdivisions along Sprinkle with the architects and Lafón, schools and Melchor Guasp Child Heroes, commissioned by Mayor Pablo Amaya Express, after the required public bidding contest, the American Institute building in 1956, the two buildings Bookshelf Center La Prensa Don Bonifacio Martinez and numerous public and private works. The construction of primary school Melchor Guasp was highly applauded by the society of that time and was praised both the will of the mayor Amaya and quality of work done by the engineer Calderón. Don Alfonso Escárcega wrote in 1952: This book is great.
Chihuahua Township is not rich town, however, our president does not crack and invests, weight for weight. The quota is for 700 school students. It has 14 classrooms, seven on the ground floor and seven on top. The construction is simply magnificent ca. Its wide corridors are impressive, his audience, that will help school breakfast and fitness room gives the impression of comfort and all manufacturing of the school highlights the first-order material used. The asphalt tile floors. Here comes concerning the engineer Calderón: The project, done with love, because he understands the author of social thing entirely, is due to the engineer Don Alejandro Calderón, having had the intelligent cooperation of his brother, the architect Gonzalo. There is one fact that can not pass unnoticed: the project is submitted for consideration by the Council of Architecture, and the budget.
was why the most famous builders of old Chihuahua. His life is intimately associated with great achievements, either at technical, economic and functionality. Even at 82 years, Don Alejandro remained solid as many of its buildings and when he interviewed for the reports of the Kanak in his book The History of Commerce in Chihuahua, the author was surprised to relate his excellent memory for dates, events, names and places.
Don Alejandro was born on February 12, 1908 in this capital of Chihuahua, particularly at Calle Nicolás Bravo, within walking distance of the Sagrada Familia. His parents were Ernesto Calderón, a native of Satevó and Mrs. Felicitas Licón, de Rosales, Chihuahua. The carpenter that his father held for many decades, insurance had to have influenced the space-time assessment of Don Alejandro, who was cutting lathe and wood pieces, which then are transformed into furniture like dressers, chairs, drawers, among others. He completed six years of primary education in the famous Appends the Normal School, under the guidance of teachers Casavantes Dona Lucrecia, Edmee Mary Alvarez and Beatriz Carlota Maceyra. At the end of elementary education was high school student in the Literary and Scientific Institute in 1921, but had to suspend their studies because they are much given to complete the work in carpentry, which took away a long time.
was until 1927 when he went to Mexico to begin his education. There entered the National Polytechnic Institute, then Technical Institute, where he in 1933 a degree in engineering, as well, period (now would be the equivalent of an architectural engineer, ie trained to design structures, but with the perspective of functionality, aesthetics and maximum utilization of space.) Thus became the first Chihuahua graduate from technical schools in the country. He returned to Chihuahua in 1934 to devote himself to his profession.
His congregation in the construction industry Chihuahua would be a few months later, when the state's governor, General Rodrigo M. Quevedo and the mayor Eugenio Prado give the victory in the competition forced the engineer Calderón, to lift a gymnasium that became a symbol of sport and that would host state on numerous occasions made of basketball we still remember with pleasure the gym, "Rodrigo M. Quevedo", named after the merits of the executive by referral. And curiously, the building would rise on the ground outside the primary school where the engineer Calderón. The play caught by the persistent enthusiasm of another of the great Chihuahuan, Leonardo "Nayo" Revilla.
The approved budget was 64 thousand dollars, but the ever pernicious infl ation made the total cost was of the order of 80 000 pesos. The gym became "whole hand" and was finally inaugurated in 1935, in a record construction time of 14 months. To this was arranged as a meeting opener basketball national championship. The gym was significant resistance until the apparent lack of maintenance caused the authorities to take the decision to demolish it in 1981, but not growing opposition from many sectors of productive life and sports in the city. Were made in the press almost daily and the letters he received the Governor Oscar Ornelas were few. Don Alejandro Calderon was invited by Don Alfonso Escárcega, sing chronicler of the city, to witness the start of demolition, as a parent who was previously the useful work. How sad
must have been for the Calderon engineer assisting the coup de grace to its moribund construction as could not possibly be forgotten his daily visits to City Hall to collect the money for payroll and pay suppliers and laborers, nor the complicated calculations and the many drawings made by him. Don Alejandro was elected president of the National Chamber of Commerce of Chihuahua for the year 1953, having as Don Alfonso Escárcega predecessor and successor to Don Juan Enriquez Alcalá.
The Board of Kanak in 1953 as vice president was Juan Enriquez Alcala, Secretary, Jesus Lagarreta, treasurer, Carlos Medina Gil and vocal Juan Fornelli, Leopoldo Mares Jr., Mario Gomez Camacho, Alejandro Pinoncelly, John F. And Michael A. Creel Oleas Siqueiros. Earlier in 1951, the biography had been part of a shortlist for the appointment of the mayor of Chihuahua because of the size of Crisóforo Mayor Caballero. In the slate were Joseph I. Aguilar, engineer and Paul Calderon Licón Amaya, the latter who was the mayor, appointed by Governor Oscar Soto Máynez. The engineer poured Calderón valuable feedback when the great work of the canalization of the river Chuviscar in 1955.
Since then he had to leave suggestions in the open, as has always been, or covered, which was not due to the high costs that even today are extremely high. Joined in marriage in 1938 to Clara Ollivier, with whom he had eight children: Mary Louise, Clara, Alejandro, Ernesto Antonio, Francisco, Elena, Jorge and Eduardo. Remained until the date of writing this work (1991) removed from the building since the end of the 50 signals. However, one of his sons followed in his footsteps as a respect brilliance in the building. This is Alexander, who holds the patent for the "three-dimensional bridges", a very well received in England, Japan and the United States, where he has been called upon to explain the technical details. Alejandro son was the design engineer of the highway bridge to Juarez, located in Sacramento.
From the book: "TRADE IN THE HISTORY OF CHIHUAHUA" 1991 edition; El Heraldo de Chihuahua
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