Héctor Velázquez Moreno (born

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, 1922probably 1923 – died 2006) was a Mexican architect.

Biography

Velázquez studied at the Faculty of Architecture of the

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México The National Autonomous University of Mexico (, UNAM) is a public university, public research university in Mexico. It has several campuses in Mexico City, and many others in various locations across Mexico, as well as a presence in nine countri ...

(UNAM) after 1949, and afterwards at

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and at the

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. Due to a scholarship he was enabled to visit also the

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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''Héctor Velázquez Moreno - Associate Founder 1922-2006''
, Despacho de Arquitectos HV, Mexiko He co-designed the 1957

Plaza Jacaranda Pasaje Jacaranda, officially ''Plaza Comercial Plaza Jacaranda'', designed by architects Ramón Torres Martínez and Héctor Velázquez Moreno, was an open-air shopping center opened in 1959 in the Zona Rosa, Mexico City, at the time considered the ...

shopping center in the

Zona Rosa, Mexico City Zona Rosa ('Pink Zone') is an area in Mexico City which is known for its shopping, nightlife, LGBT in Mexico, LGBT community, and its recently established Koreans in Mexico, Korean community. The larger Colonia (Mexico), official neighborhood it i ...

, a hub for the city's fashion-conscious and artist scenes."Antes de que hubiera centros comerciales", ''El Universal''
/ref> He was president of the Colegio de Arquitectos de la Ciudad de México (CAM) in the

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from 1963 to 1965. He was head of social housebuilding in the

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, director of architecture and urban planning in the

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and general commissioner of construction and redevelopment at the UNAM. Together with

Ramón Torres Martínez Ramón Torres Martínez (November 22, 1924 - September 4, 2008) was a Mexican architect. His 1950s designs were influenced by the Bauhaus movement. Together with Héctor Velázquez Moreno he founded the architecture bureau ''Torres y Velázquez ...

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.Julieta Boy
''Un hasta siempre''
(Spanish), ObrasWeb.

External links

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Website of Héctor Velázquez Moreno

References and notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Velazquez Moreno, Hector Mexican architects Artists from Mexico City National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni Harvard University alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni 1922 births 2006 deaths Mexican expatriates in the United States