Elisa Silva
Elisa Silva | Informal Cities Workshop Kickoff Lecture
Elisa Silva will deliver the 2024 Informal Cities Workshop Kickoff Lecture as part of the Sam Fox School’s Public Lecture Series at WashU.
Silva is principal and founder of Enlace Arquitectura, a professional practice in architecture, urban design and landscape architecture and Enlace Foundation, an NGO that promotes cultural and educational programs of social inclusion and participatory design collaborations. Enlace’s work has been recognized in the XI and VII BIAU awards, Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, the Biennale di Venezia, the Chicago Architecture Biennial, and Arc en Rêve.
About Elisa Silva
Elisa Silva is an American-Venezuelan architect, with a Master of Architecture from Harvard University. She has received the Rome Prize from the American Academy, the Wheelwright Fellowship from Harvard, Graham Foundation Grants in 2017 and 2021 and the Lucas Artist Fellowship. She is co-author of CABA: Cartography of the Caracas barrios (2014) and author of Pure Space: Expanding the Public Sphere through Public Space Transformations in Latin American Spontaneous Settlements (Actar, 2020).
She is an associate professor at Florida International University, lecturer at Harvard University and has taught at Princeton University, the University of Toronto, the Simón Bolívar University, and the Central University in Venezuela.