[1][3] Díaz Morales was a founding member of the movement Tapatia School of Architecture, and in 1948 he founded the architecture department at the ITESO, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara (now part of CUAAD at University of Guadalajara).
[2] He was also a guest student at the Escuela de Arquitectura (English: School of Architecture) in Mexico City, from 1922 to 1924.
[4][5] From 1928 to 1936, the four students including Barragán, Díaz Morales, Castellanos, and Urzúa introduced a new type of architecture to the Jalisco region, called the Escuela Tapatía de Arquitectura (English: Tapatia School of Architecture).
He founded the School of Architecture of the ITESO, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara in 1948 (now part of CUAAD at University of Guadalajara),[7] where he brought together German and Austrian exiles after World War II, such as Mathias Goeritz, and Erich Coufal [es][8] Díaz Morales served as director of the school department from its beginning in 1948 until 1963.
He is buried in a crypt at Templo Expiatorio del Santísimo Sacramento, a church in Guadalajara.