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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.