Iñaki Echeverria is an architect and entrepreneur based in Mexico City and the director of the Parque Ecológico Lago de Texcoco (Texcoco Lake Ecological Park) restoration project. Echeverria has been studying the Texcoco basin, the former lake now almost completely occupied by Mexico City, for more than 25 years. In 2020, the Mexican government announced an initiative to reclaim more than 35,000 acres of the basin—once designated for a new international airport—to restore the wetland ecosystem as a public ecological park. An immense, multi-faceted endeavor, the project has called on the expertise of more than 150 specialists from across environmental fields, from scientists to architects to engineers—all directed by Echeverria’s office. Upon completion, the Parque Ecológico Lago de Texcoco will be one of the largest urban parks in the world, providing critical ecological and social infrastructure that reconciles the expansive city with the valley in which it lies.