enlace: arquitectura (est. 2007) is a professional practice invested in extending the tools of architecture, landscape architecture and urban design to territories beyond the discipline's conventional boundaries.
enlace: foundation (est. 2017) is a non-government organization that engages participatory design processes and cultural programs to build awareness of pressing social and environmental issues.

enlace embodies an ethos of participatory engagement with communities through design. Projects operate through an interdisciplinary approach that rejects the prescriptive process of formalist architecture. Founded in 2007 by American-Venezuelan architect Elisa Silva, enlace combines research, design, and collaboration with local cultural organizations and activists to raise awareness of urban spatial inequalities shaped by socioeconomic forces and environmental pressures. enlace is a practice borne from observations and dialogues with a multitude of voices that facilitates experiences of social integration through dialogue, music, art, and design as points of exchange between disperate groups.