Héctor Velázquez Moreno
Héctor Velázquez Moreno (born Mexico City, 1922 – died 2006) was a Mexican architect. Biography. Velázquez studied at the Faculty of Architecture of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) after 1949, and afterwards at Harvard University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Due to a scholarship he was enabled to visit also the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In the 1950s, he designed together with notable architects the Ciudad Universitaria of the UNAM. He designed several religious buildings as well as accommodation and commercial buildings, also in other countries He was president of  the Colegio de Arquitectos de la Ciudad de México (CAM) in the Sociedad de Arquitectos de México from 1963 to 1965. He was head of social housebuilding in the Distrito Federal de México, director of architecture and urban planning in the Secretaría de Obras Públicas and general commissioner of construction and redevelopment at the UNAM. Together with Ramón Torres Martínez he founded the architecture bureau "Torres y Velázquez Arquitectos y Asociados", and was co-founder of the "Despacho de Arquitectos HV. S.A. de C.V." in 1990.