Natalia Echeverri is Senior Lecturer and the director of the Master of Landscape Architecture and the Postgraduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture programs in the Division of Landscape Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. Natalia’s teaching and research is focused on how historic and contemporary practices of urban design and landscape planning have engaged with issues of density, settlement and climate dynamics in Hong Kong. She holds a Master of Architecture and Master of City Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. Natalia has practiced extensively in the fields of architecture, urban design and landscape architecture. She is a founding partner of VALECHE Studio, a research and design consultancy devoted to exploring landscape’s role in the construction and experience of the city.