Elisa
Silva

Caracas, Venezuela

Elisa Silva is Director and founder of Enlace Arquitectura and Enlace Foundation, in Caracas, Venezuela. The two entities work on projects that promote the integration of cities including the barrios through participatory design processes and cultural programs. Their work has received awards in numerous design competitions and international architecture and urban design biennials.

Silva received the 2005 American Academy Rome Prize, the 2011 Harvard Wheelwright Fellowship, Graham Foundation Grant 2017 and the Lucas Artist Fellowship 2019. She co-authored CABA: Cartography of the Caracas barrios (2014) and authored Pure Space: Expanding the Public Sphere through Public Space Transformations in Latin American Informal Settlements (2020).

Silva is a visiting professor at Princeton Univ. School of Arch., and Daniels Faculty of Arch., Landscape Arch, and Design at the Univ. of Toronto and is Associate Professor at the Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab and the School of Arch at FIU. She has also taught at Harvard Univ. GSD and the Simón Bolívar University.