CARLOS GARCIAVELEZ Y CORTAZAR, B.Arch (Universidad de Anahuac), M.Des. (Harvard)
Mr.
Garciavelez is vice-president and director of architecture and urban design
of Geo. He has over thirty years of experience as an architect and urban
designer, and has designed over 250,000 affordable housing units, in Mexico,
Argentina, Chile, El Salvador and the USA. Twenty-two national and seven
international architectural awards have recognized his work. He is director
of the Habitat International Association of Architects, Region III –
North and South America.
He has lectured extensively, including at the Mexican
Academy of Architecture, the National Autonomous University of Mexico,
the University of the State of Mexico, the Polytechnic of Mexico, the
University of Zacatecas, the Institute Torroja in Spain, the University
of Grenoble-France, the Centre George-Pompidou in Paris, and at universities
in Columbia, Ecuador and China.