Alejandro Echeverri, architect (Medellín, 1962), graduated in 1987 from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB) in Medellín (Colombia) and studied from 1998 to 2000 in the Urban Studies Doctoral Program at the Barcelona Advanced Technical School of Architecture (ETSAB). He was a professor at the UPB and director of the UPB Architectural Studies Group, as well as visiting professor in Urban Studies at ETSAB in 1999. His work received recognition in 1996, when he was awarded the Fernando Martinez Sanabria National Architecture Prize in 1996 from the Colombian Architecture Society, the same year in which he won honorable mention at the X Panamerican Biennial Architecture Exhibition in Quito, Ecuador. He has won several national architecture and urban design contests, the last of which a first place in the National Contest for the Reorganization of the Aburrà River basin and the Tres Aguas park, in Caldas Antioquia, in 2006. He has been on the jury panels of several national and international contests, among which XVIII National Architecture Biennial of the Colombian Association of Architects in 2002, in the Architectural Design and Urban Design categories. He has spoken at national and international conferences and worked as a private consultant in the fields of architecture, urban design and territorial planning for several Colombian cities. He was Director of Urban Planning for the municipality of Medellín from 2005 to 2007 and General Director of the Enterprise for Urban Development (EDU) of the municipality of Medellín from 2004 to 2005, during the administration of mayor Sergio Fajardo.