John Echlin
Architect, Designer, and Director in Zürich, Switzerland
John Echlin
Architect, Designer, and Director in Zürich, Switzerland
Architect, urban designer and planner with wide-ranging experience in building types and placemaking, currently independently consulting on projects in Europe and the Middle East. Key expertise in urban redevelopment, high-density mixed-use development master plans, creating complete and walkable communities with human-scaled street and open-space design, facilitating an integrated design approach and delivering sensible plot-development controls and regulations. Particular interest in environmentally responsive and culturally sensitive design and collaboration. Has been a frequent speaker on sustainable design issues. Accomplished practioner with over $350mil in completed buildings, including award-winning and LEED Certified buildings that comprise mixed-use residential, office, higher education, hotels and historic adaptive re-use projects. A keen traveller, his pastime interests include painting and photography.