Graciela Silvestri (born 1954) is an
Argentine
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architect
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, Professor of Architectural Theory and a senior researcher at the
National Scientific and Technical Research Council
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(CONICET) in Argentina.
Career
Silvestri earned both her degree in Architecture and Ph.D. in History from the University of Buenos Aires.
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''Coleccion Cisneros.'' Accessed 15 October 2015.
The main focus of her work is on landscapes and urban design.
[Gorelik, Adrian and Graciela Silvestri.]
The Past as the Future: A Reactive Utopia in Buenos Aires
" ''The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader.'' Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. 427-440.
Silvestri is a professor at the
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
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in Buenos Aires, Argentina as well as a ''Maestría en Historia de la Arquitectura'' at the
Torcuato di Tella Institute
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.
From 2005-2006, she was the de Fortabat Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at
Harvard University
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, where she returned in 2014 as the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor.
She has also been a visiting scholar at
Cambridge University
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, the Iberoamerikanisches Institute Berlin.
[Graciela Silvestri]
" David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University. Accessed 15 October 2015. She has also served as a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard.
Publications
* ''El Paisaje Como Cifra de Armonia.'' Nueva Visión, 1991.
* With Fernando Aliata: ''El Color del Rio: Historia Cultural del Paisaje del Riachuelo.'' Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, 2004.
* ''El lugar común: .'' EDHASA, 2011.
''La ciudad que fue olvidada.'' (PDF; 2,0 MB)
''Postales de Buenos Aires (Notas para leer en el subte).''(PDF; 159 kB)
*With Jorge Silvetti
Territorio Guaraní ''ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America.'' Harvard University, 2015.
References
External links
''Graciela Silvestri: The Cultural Construction of the South American Landscape.''''Conferencia Dra. Arq. Graciela Silvestri - Paisaje, Medioambiente y Ciudad.''''Graciela Silvestri presenta su libro „El Lugar Común“.''Graciela Silvestri 1954
''Un Día / Una Arquitecta.'' September 12, 2015.
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Argentine women architects
Architects from Buenos Aires
1954 births
Living people
National University of La Plata faculty