Edmundo R. Colón Izquierdo, ASLA, AIA, CAAPPR

Principal / Landscape Architect / Architect

Edmundo is principal at ECo, a multidisciplinary firm he co-founded in 2005 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His professional work encompasses a broad range of project types and scales; in Puerto Rico, Mainland USA, Europe, Japan, and the Middle East. Throughout his two-decade career, Edmundo has led teams to deliver adaptive reuse and restoration project in both historical buidings and landscapes. He has published articles for local newspapers and design magazines. His work has been featured in magazines and newspapers both locally and abroad. For almost two decades, Edmundo was also associate professor and program coordinator at the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico’s both Architecture and Landscape Departments, where his studios and technical classes focus on planning of resilient landscapes and urban environments. Edmundo is a Licensed Architect and Landscape Architect, and a Certified Forestry and Planting Professional.

Education

  • MLA, Harvard University, 2006 BARCH Polytechnic
  • University of Puerto Rico, 2004

Professional registrition

  •  Landscape Architect – PR – Lic.113
  • Architect – PR – Lic. 19992

Boards, professional and academlc associations

  • American Society of Landscape Architects —
    2013-Present 

  • American Institute of Architects — 2019-
    Present

  • Colegio de Arquitectos y Arquitectos Paisajistas
    de Puerto Rico — Member 2005-Present (2018-
    Present) President—IAPPR (2016-2018) Board
    Member / Legislative Committee Director

Awards

  • AIAPR Honor Awards 2022 – Honorable Mention
    for Excellence in Design – San Juan, PR
  • Fellow – Landscape Architecture Foundation – 2020-21
  • Washington DC Jacob Weidenman Excellence in Design Prize Recipient – 2006 Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard GSD

Project experience (SELECTED)

Public Realm

  • 2023-Ongoing – Moca Plazoleta y Estacionamiento
  • 2022-Ongoing – Ponce Urban Renewal Initiatives
  • 2021-Ongoing – Ponce de Leon/Mufioz Rivera Redevelopment Green Infrastructure
  • 2021-Ongoing – BPPR Campus Public Realm
  • 2020 – Parc Bio-Pluvial – Under Constrcution
  • 2016- VA Hospital Perimeter Planting – Main Hospital Facilities in San Juan
  • 2011 – American School In Doha Planting + Playgrounds – Qatar

Historic Properties

  • 2022-Ongoing: Puente #4 – General Norzagary Bridge – Restoration of a
    historic bridge
  • 2022-Ongoing: Manati Innovation Center – Adaptive reuse of a 19th century building
  • 2022: UWC Historic Oval – Re-envisioning of a historic landscape in a school in New Mexico
  • 2019-Ongoing: Virgilio Cupril Residence -R3 Program – CBDG-DR Housing program
  • 2010 + 2018: Ballaja Barracks Green Roof – 25,000ft2 Green roof over historic structure
  • 2015: Cruz 253 – Remodeling of Historic House in Old San Juan

Other Projects

  • LV Profesional Building Remodel – 30,000ft2 Interior remodel for FEMA offices
  • R3 Program – CBDG-DR Housing program
  • Gran Vista Toa Alta Comunal Facilities – New building
  • Bahia 22 – 10,000ft2 Private Residence
  • Marazul – Two Ten-Story Residential Towers
  • SER de Puerto Rico
    – Interior Remodels
    – Multimodal Therapy Room
    – Domestic Economy Room
    – Classroom Lighting Replacement
    – Flooring Replacement
  • SER de Puerto Rico – New Buildings
    – Sensory Integration Building
    – Multiuse Building
    – Aquatic Therapy Center Roof

Mentions and Citations

2018

  • Construcci6n – El Nuevo Dia – 4/24/2018
    Siembra segura – Newspaper Article
  • El Vocero — 2/16/2018
  • Repudian Tala Illegal – Newspaper Article

2012

  • AIA Architect — USA — March/April
  • Standard Bearer: Puerto Rico is one of the most environmentally
    troubled islands in the Caribbean. Can one building change that?

2011

  • Paisea #18 – Landscape and Art – Spain Potemkin – parque de
    meditacidon industrial. Kuramata, Japon

2010

  • Gulf Times —- Qatar PTA raises QRImn for ASD playground – Newspaper
    Article