Graciela Silvestri (born 1954) is an Argentine architect, Professor of Architectural Theory and a senior researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) in Argentina.
Career Silvestri earned both her degree in Architecture and Ph.D. in History from the University of Buenos Aires.Graciela Silvestri. 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 in Buenos Aires, Argentina as well as a Maestría en Historia de la Arquitectura at the Torcuato di Tella Institute. From 2005-2006, she was the de Fortabat Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, where she returned in 2014 as the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor. She has also been a visiting scholar at Cambridge University, 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. Graciela Silvestri: Riachuelo. 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.