Elisa Silva

Elisa Silva is principal and founder of Enlace Arquitectura and Enlace Foundation, established in Caracas, Venezuela. The two entities work in tandem to raise awareness of spatial inequality, advance the integration of informal settlement communities and address the social and environmental challenges of rural landscapes in Venezuela and parts of Mexico. Their work has received awards in numerous design competitions and international architecture and urban design biennials. Recently, in 2019, the Church San Juan María Vianney in Media Legua, Venezuela was selected as a winning project at the XI Iberoamerican Architecture and Urban Design Biennial 2019. Elisa is visiting professor at the Princeton University School of Architecture and has taught at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Design at the University of Toronto, the Simón Bolívar University and the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas. She is the author of "Pure Space: Expanding the Public Sphere through Public Space Transformations in Latin American Spontaneous Settlements" (Actar, forthcoming in 2020), and co-author of "CABA Cartography of the Caracas Barrios 1966-2014." Elisa grew up between St. Louis and Venezuela.