Guillermo Montalvo Jaramillo (Ambato, October 9, 1918-Quito, January 1, 1977) was an Ecuadorian civil engineer and builder.
Biography
Contenido
Guillermo Montalvo Jaramillo nació el 9 de octubre de 1918, en la ciudad ecuatoriana de Ambato. Hijo del doctor Victor Hugo Montalvo Heredia y de Esther Jaramillo Pachano.
Se graduó en el Colegio Nacional "Vicente León" de Latacunga,[1] donde obtuvo el título de Bachiller.
Tras realizar estudios superiores en la Universidad Central de Ecuador, en 1947 obtuvo el título de Ingeniero civil. Posteriormente hizo cursos de capacitación en Londres, Washington D. C. y sobre todo en la Universidad de Puerto Rico donde se diplomó de Ingeniero Sanitario (1953).
Se casó con María Piedad Josefina Samaniego Molineros, con quien tuvo cinco hijos.
Falleció 1 de enero de 1977, en Quito, a causa de un infarto agudo de miocardio.
Professional career
He began his professional career at a young age, participating in the team that was a pioneer in Ecuador and designed the “Quito Regulatory Plan,”[2] under the direction of Uruguayans Guillermo Jones Odriozola and Gilberto Gatto Sobral.[3].
Later he moved to his native Ambato, where he truly began his professional career with the design and construction of his first civil works. His return and professional establishment faced an enormous challenge when, shortly after, on August 5, a devastating earthquake occurred that devastated the city and entailed an arduous task of reconstruction in which he took an active part along with other young professionals of the time, such as Sixto Durán-Ballén, Wilson Garcés and his university classmate Leopoldo “Cucho” Moreno Loor.[4] Precisely this experience in the reconstruction of his hometown would open the doors for his professional training in Europe. Upon his return he would settle again in Ambato and from private practice he would provide interesting contributions to the necessary urban development of Ambato after the earthquake, with his work in the now traditional urbanizations of that city such as Ingahurco and La Loma, without discounting his constructions in other parts of the city, including his own home on the central Cevallos street in Ambato.
Emblematic civil builder
Introduction
Guillermo Montalvo Jaramillo (Ambato, October 9, 1918-Quito, January 1, 1977) was an Ecuadorian civil engineer and builder.
Biography
Contenido
Guillermo Montalvo Jaramillo nació el 9 de octubre de 1918, en la ciudad ecuatoriana de Ambato. Hijo del doctor Victor Hugo Montalvo Heredia y de Esther Jaramillo Pachano.
Se graduó en el Colegio Nacional "Vicente León" de Latacunga,[1] donde obtuvo el título de Bachiller.
Tras realizar estudios superiores en la Universidad Central de Ecuador, en 1947 obtuvo el título de Ingeniero civil. Posteriormente hizo cursos de capacitación en Londres, Washington D. C. y sobre todo en la Universidad de Puerto Rico donde se diplomó de Ingeniero Sanitario (1953).
Se casó con María Piedad Josefina Samaniego Molineros, con quien tuvo cinco hijos.
Falleció 1 de enero de 1977, en Quito, a causa de un infarto agudo de miocardio.
Professional career
He began his professional career at a young age, participating in the team that was a pioneer in Ecuador and designed the “Quito Regulatory Plan,”[2] under the direction of Uruguayans Guillermo Jones Odriozola and Gilberto Gatto Sobral.[3].
Later he moved to his native Ambato, where he truly began his professional career with the design and construction of his first civil works. His return and professional establishment faced an enormous challenge when, shortly after, on August 5, a devastating earthquake occurred that devastated the city and entailed an arduous task of reconstruction in which he took an active part along with other young professionals of the time, such as Sixto Durán-Ballén, Wilson Garcés and his university classmate Leopoldo “Cucho” Moreno Loor.[4] Precisely this experience in the reconstruction of his hometown would open the doors for his professional training in Europe. Upon his return he would settle again in Ambato and from private practice he would provide interesting contributions to the necessary urban development of Ambato after the earthquake, with his work in the now traditional urbanizations of that city such as Ingahurco and La Loma, without discounting his constructions in other parts of the city, including his own home on the central Cevallos street in Ambato.
The theoretical background acquired and the experience gained in observing realities in other countries, enable him to provide a more solid contribution to his work, which is recognized with his appointment as Director of Public Works of the Province of Tungurahua (1956-1960), which at the time housed two fundamental engineering works in Ecuador: the Puente de las Juntas at the junction of the Chambo and Patate rivers, to break the eastern mountain range, before forming the river Pastaza, and the first tunnel in Ecuador next to the mythical Agoyán Waterfall, on the outskirts of the city of Baños de Agua Santa. However, this experience, which in addition to his expertise as an engineer required a large dose of administration and management, was the preamble to an important mutation in his career because it enabled him to leave the province and venture professionally in Quito, which as the country's capital was more exposed to innovative jobs and developments in construction. Since 1961, he combined successive jobs, in the Directorate of Civil Aviation and in the Ecuadorian Housing Bank, with the construction of private civil works, such as his own house on Vargas and Ante streets in Quito (1967) or his collaboration with the most important work of the sixties in Ecuador, the “Carlos Andrade Marín” Social Security Hospital, in which he served as construction director.[5] The period also coincides with his militancy. union, since he is one of the founders and later Secretary of the College of Civil Engineers of Ecuador. Given his incorruptible personality and unrestricted adherence to moral norms and principles, his time in public administration was not without complications, which only elevated his figure and strengthened the image of dignity and respect that he had already well earned among his friends and acquaintances. The most emblematic case was his confrontation with the then civil dictator José María Velasco Ibarra (1971), whom he did not hesitate to confront and refute when he was required - and did not accept - to sign an act with which he did not agree due to not only technical and legal considerations but above all ethical ones, an action honoring the teachings of his parents. He preferred to lose his job as Head of Inspection and Technical Director of the Housing Bank, and go to the streets, as in fact happened by order of the dictator Velasco Ibarra, rather than give in to his principles and convictions.[6] From there and given his experience in public works, his career is oriented towards collaboration with international entities based in the country to develop major projects. It is linked to the Ministry of Natural Resources for the supervision of the construction of the trans-Ecuadorian oil pipeline that would serve to transport crude oil from the East to the Coast. Later he would provide important services as Director of School Constructions (1972-1973), summoned by the Minister of Education of the time, of fond memory and legacy, General Vicente Anda Aguirre, with whom he had a long and old friendship. His main contribution at the head of this institution was the establishment of the Metal Structures Factory that since then has provided school classrooms throughout Ecuador. He collaborated, within the integrationist scheme of the Andean Pact, with the construction of the first drill bit factory in the city of Latacunga, he would be linked to the inspection teams of the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, which would lead him to provide services for both the Ministry of Public Works and the Ecuadorian Institute of Sanitary Works.
[2] ↑ Plan Regulador de Quito y aporte de Jones Odriozola y Gilberto Gatto Sobral, en “El proceso urbano en el Ecuador”, ILDIS, Quito 1987, Introducción p.15 y Bibliografía p. 300 (Jones Odriozola, Guillermo “Memoria adjunta al Plan Regulador de Quito”, Ed. Municipal, Quito, 1949) http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1258&context=fernando_carrion&sei-redir=1#search="Jones+Odriozola+gatto+sobral".: http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1258&context=fernando_carrion&sei-redir=1#search=
[3] ↑ Plan Regulador para la Ciudad de Quito - «Plan Jones Odriozola» (1945): Este primer documento formal de planificación proyectó una cuadruplicación de la población y del crecimiento espacial de la ciudad para el año 2000, y recomendó separar áreas para el futuro desarrollo de la ciudad. Funcionalmente, el plan dividió a la ciudad en tres principales zonas de actividad: vivienda, trabajo y recreo, y recomendó la diferenciación espacial de los usos del suelo, una red vial más racional, y la necesidad de espacio recreativo suficiente. Tomado de “Apéndice A: Historia de la Planificación del Uso del Suelo Urbano en Quito”, Depósito de Documentos de la FAO http://www.fao.org/docrep/w7445s/w7445s07.htm.: http://www.fao.org/docrep/w7445s/w7445s07.htm
[6] ↑ Sobre este incidente puede consultarse un completo reportaje aparecido en la Revista Vistazo, N° 168, de mayo 1971, páginas 4 a 18 "Banco de la Vivienda: El país demanda la nulidad de los contratos. Para la historia hablan los técnicos".
The theoretical background acquired and the experience gained in observing realities in other countries, enable him to provide a more solid contribution to his work, which is recognized with his appointment as Director of Public Works of the Province of Tungurahua (1956-1960), which at the time housed two fundamental engineering works in Ecuador: the Puente de las Juntas at the junction of the Chambo and Patate rivers, to break the eastern mountain range, before forming the river Pastaza, and the first tunnel in Ecuador next to the mythical Agoyán Waterfall, on the outskirts of the city of Baños de Agua Santa. However, this experience, which in addition to his expertise as an engineer required a large dose of administration and management, was the preamble to an important mutation in his career because it enabled him to leave the province and venture professionally in Quito, which as the country's capital was more exposed to innovative jobs and developments in construction. Since 1961, he combined successive jobs, in the Directorate of Civil Aviation and in the Ecuadorian Housing Bank, with the construction of private civil works, such as his own house on Vargas and Ante streets in Quito (1967) or his collaboration with the most important work of the sixties in Ecuador, the “Carlos Andrade Marín” Social Security Hospital, in which he served as construction director.[5] The period also coincides with his militancy. union, since he is one of the founders and later Secretary of the College of Civil Engineers of Ecuador. Given his incorruptible personality and unrestricted adherence to moral norms and principles, his time in public administration was not without complications, which only elevated his figure and strengthened the image of dignity and respect that he had already well earned among his friends and acquaintances. The most emblematic case was his confrontation with the then civil dictator José María Velasco Ibarra (1971), whom he did not hesitate to confront and refute when he was required - and did not accept - to sign an act with which he did not agree due to not only technical and legal considerations but above all ethical ones, an action honoring the teachings of his parents. He preferred to lose his job as Head of Inspection and Technical Director of the Housing Bank, and go to the streets, as in fact happened by order of the dictator Velasco Ibarra, rather than give in to his principles and convictions.[6] From there and given his experience in public works, his career is oriented towards collaboration with international entities based in the country to develop major projects. It is linked to the Ministry of Natural Resources for the supervision of the construction of the trans-Ecuadorian oil pipeline that would serve to transport crude oil from the East to the Coast. Later he would provide important services as Director of School Constructions (1972-1973), summoned by the Minister of Education of the time, of fond memory and legacy, General Vicente Anda Aguirre, with whom he had a long and old friendship. His main contribution at the head of this institution was the establishment of the Metal Structures Factory that since then has provided school classrooms throughout Ecuador. He collaborated, within the integrationist scheme of the Andean Pact, with the construction of the first drill bit factory in the city of Latacunga, he would be linked to the inspection teams of the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, which would lead him to provide services for both the Ministry of Public Works and the Ecuadorian Institute of Sanitary Works.
[2] ↑ Plan Regulador de Quito y aporte de Jones Odriozola y Gilberto Gatto Sobral, en “El proceso urbano en el Ecuador”, ILDIS, Quito 1987, Introducción p.15 y Bibliografía p. 300 (Jones Odriozola, Guillermo “Memoria adjunta al Plan Regulador de Quito”, Ed. Municipal, Quito, 1949) http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1258&context=fernando_carrion&sei-redir=1#search="Jones+Odriozola+gatto+sobral".: http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1258&context=fernando_carrion&sei-redir=1#search=
[3] ↑ Plan Regulador para la Ciudad de Quito - «Plan Jones Odriozola» (1945): Este primer documento formal de planificación proyectó una cuadruplicación de la población y del crecimiento espacial de la ciudad para el año 2000, y recomendó separar áreas para el futuro desarrollo de la ciudad. Funcionalmente, el plan dividió a la ciudad en tres principales zonas de actividad: vivienda, trabajo y recreo, y recomendó la diferenciación espacial de los usos del suelo, una red vial más racional, y la necesidad de espacio recreativo suficiente. Tomado de “Apéndice A: Historia de la Planificación del Uso del Suelo Urbano en Quito”, Depósito de Documentos de la FAO http://www.fao.org/docrep/w7445s/w7445s07.htm.: http://www.fao.org/docrep/w7445s/w7445s07.htm
[6] ↑ Sobre este incidente puede consultarse un completo reportaje aparecido en la Revista Vistazo, N° 168, de mayo 1971, páginas 4 a 18 "Banco de la Vivienda: El país demanda la nulidad de los contratos. Para la historia hablan los técnicos".