Lecture's IaaC - IaaC Lecture Series 2008 > Alejandro Echeverri

Alejandro Echeverri (Medellín, 1962), architect from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB) of Medellín, 1987, he realized studies for his doctorate in urbanism in the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB) 1998-2000. Alejandro has been a professor and director of the Study Group in Architecture in the UPB 2001-2003 and invited Professor of Urbanism in ETSAB in 1999. His work has earned the National Architectural Award, Fernando Martínez Sanabria, given by the Colombian Architectural Association in 1996 and he has had a Mention of Honor in the X Panamerican Biennial of Architecture in Quito in 1996. He has won numerous national architectural and urbanism contests, the last one the First Prize in \"El Concurso Nacional para el Ordenamiento de la Cuenca del Rio Aburrá y El Parque Tres Aguas”, in Caldas, Antioquia, Colombia in 2006. He has been jury of various national and International contests, among them the XVIII National Biennial of Architecture of the Sociedad Colombiana de Arquitectos in the categories of Architectural Project and Urban Project in 2002. He has given conferences both nationally and internationally and is currently a private consultant in Architecture, Urbanism and Territorial Planning for various cities in Colombia. He was the Director of Urban Projects for the Municipality of Medellín from 2005 to 2007, and was the General Manager of the Empresa de Desarrollo Urbano (EDU), of the Municipality of Medellín, from 2004 to 2005, both under the administration of former Major Sergio Fajardo

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