Sabana Grande is part of the Symposium Building 2050 Americas League International Architecture Summit at FIU Florida International University School of Architecture March20 -21, 2015. Elisa Silva presented along side architects Solano Benítez, Mauricio Rocha and Juan Ignacio Cerda of Elemental.
Elisa Silva was invited by the Faculty of Architecture andUrbanism of the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Perú PUCP to participate in Limapolis, an intense research and design studio, annually organized since 2011 between March 9 and 15 2015.
The editors of Construinfo interview Elisa Silva on thesubject of public space and her experience in the Sabana Grande Boulevard and the plaza interventions in La Morán, an informal settlement on the western side of Caracas.
The television program Soluciones Globovisión interviewed architects Elisa Silva and Ignacio Cardona on the urbanization of barrios at the grounds of Mesuca in the barrio of Petare.
CAF, development bank of Latin America and SIUS,Interdisciplinary Seminar for Social Urgency at the University ofBuenos Aires inaugurate the exhibition "Latin American lessons ininformal settlement rehabilitation".
The exhibition, curated by Elisa Silva, presents 15 slumupgrading case studies in the region. Rubén Ramírez, Representative director of CAF in Argentina, Juan Carlos Fried from SIUS-FADU, UBA and Flavio Janchez from FADU, UBA and Elisa Silva comented on the exhibition and the work of their institutions.
Enlace Arquitectura, together with Inés Casanova and Enrique Blanco, received First Prize at the XI National ArchitectureBiennial in the category of Non-Built projects for the MaracayMetropolitan Ecological Park Competition in Maracay, Venezuela.
Enlace was also awarded Honorable Mention for the rehabilitationinterventions in the Barrio La Morán.
Elisa Silva participates in the Round Table discusion"Architecture as social motor for intervention in Hábitat" by theUniversity of Coruña in Spain together with other Latin Americanarchitects working in the region. The session was moderated byarchitect Placido Lizancos Mora, Coordinator of the Habitat Projectat that institution.
Elisa Silva participated in the 7th conversation on URBANITY ¡Locortez no quita lo valiente! at the Library Lugar Común, which wasorganized by Sampablera por Caracas. The conversation centered onthe relationship between civic behavior and access to public spacein the city.
Eric Arthur Gallery - Daniels Factulty of ArchitectureUnviersity of Toronto
The exhibition presents research work by Elisa Silva for theWheelwright Fellowship from the Graduate School of Design Harvard University. It is open to the public between the 8th ofSeptemberand the 18th of October 2014 at the Eric Arthur Gallery ofthe Daniels Faculty of Architecture at the University of Toronto.The show includes 21 projects in the cities of Lima, Medellin,Guayaquil, Valparaiso, Caracas and Rio de Janeiro. where publicspace is created in informal settlments as part of largerinvestments in major infrastructure, environmental conservation andrisk management projects.
La Caja - Centro Cultural Chacao, Caracas
Between the 14th of September and the 30th of November, theexhibition "Proyecto Helicoide: Fantastic Visions" presents thework of several Venezuelan artists and architects invited to sharetheir statements or projections related to the little understoodmodern architecture legacy called El Helicoide. The piece by Elisa Silva titled "Section: San Agustín - Helicoide - Cota 905" formspart of the exhibition.