Education
Velázquez studied at the Faculty of Architecture of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) after 1949, and afterwards at Harvard University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Velázquez studied at the Faculty of Architecture of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) 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 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 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 (The Communications Advertising and Marketing) 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 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. South America de Curriculum Vitae in 1990.