Inaki Echeverria in Conversation with Kate Orff
Architect Inaki Echeverria discusses large-scale ecological projects including the 35,000-acre Parque Ecologico Lago Texcoco in Mexico with landscape architect Kate Orff.
Why we picked this
Echeverria's Parque Ecologico Lago Texcoco, 35,000 acres of environmental remediation on the outskirts of Mexico City, is one of the most ambitious landscape projects on Earth. Hearing him with Kate Orff is two practitioners thinking at planetary scale.
Inaki Echeverria’s practice, founded in Mexico City in 2008, operates at a scale most architects never reach. His Parque Ecologico Lago Texcoco, a 35,000-acre environmental remediation project on the outskirts of Mexico City, transforms degraded lakebeds into functioning ecological systems. Other projects include Parque Atlacomulco and the Papalote Verde Children’s Museum, all exhibited at the Venice Biennale.
In conversation with Kate Orff of GSAPP and SCAPE, Echeverria discusses the intersection of territorial design and environmental remediation, exploring how architecture can work at the landscape scale to repair what development has damaged.
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