Prior to joining the faculty of the National University in 1940, Peschard was an architect in the Ministry of Communications and Public Works and a member of the Council of Architecture of the Federal District.

Alonso Mariscal, another professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, traveled with Peschard to Washington D.C. to begin a two-month study of American methods of teaching architecture.

[3] According to architecture historian Valerie Fraser, Peschard's Science Faculty design "counteracts the rather more rigid geometry of the Rectorate," with its mural by José Chávez Morado at the upper part of the facade placed on a convex curve.

[5] In 2004, Celia Ester Arredando Zambrano wrote that the placement of the Science Building at the center of the university's main plaza "reveals that even though the campus was inspired by the modern city, a symbolic arrangement seems to prevail in the composition.

"[6] Art historian Justino Fernández highlighted the building's auditorium, as well as its interior peculiarities, in particular what he termed its "unusual classrooms.