Alejandro Echeverri

Professor Alejandro Echeverri is an architect, urbanist, and Colombian academic. He is the co-founder, former director, and current member of URBAM at EAFIT University in Colombia. He is a Harvard GSD Loeb Fellow and is a member of its alumni council. He serves on the International Advisory Boards of the Arq. Futuro Cities Lab at Insper in Brazil and the School of Architecture and Planning at Woxsen University in India. He is also a member of the scientific committee of the International Union of Architects (UIA) 2026 World Congress. Between 2004 and 2008, he was the director of EDU, the urban development company of the city of Medellín, and the city’s director of urban projects, where he led the Social Urbanism strategy making the city a blueprint for the future of other distressed cities worldwide.

His experience spans architectural, urban, environmental, and planning projects. His work focuses on environmental and regenerative projects, social justice, and community participation.

He has collaborated as a professor, lecturer, and jury member with multiple international institutions, including the Harvard GSD, LSE Cities, the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) at Illinois Tech in Chicago, the Bloomberg Cities Network, and others. He is an international consultant and advisor to UN-Habitat and the World Bank, particularly in countries with weak political and institutional structures.

Alejandro Echeverri joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as Distinguished Visiting Professor in Urbanism for the School of Architecture, Art and Design and the Center for the Future of Cities.

• Loeb Fellow, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
• Master’s, Advanced Studies in Urbanism and Territorial Planning, ETSAB, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
• Urbanist Architect, Universidad Pontificia
  Bolivariana (UPB)

• “Medellín re-escribe sus barrios" in MANITO, Félix (ed.). Ciudades creativas (vol. 5): espacio público y cultura en acción. Barcelona: Fundación Kreanta, 2013.