Meet the Author
Elisa Iturbe
Elisa Iturbe is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Her work studies the relationship between energy, power, and form, with a focus on how the adoption of fossil fuels changed the spatial organization of the built environment, producing an urban and architectural paradigm unique to the carbon age — carbon form. This concept was first published in Log 47, titled “Overcoming Carbon Form,” which she guest-edited in 2019. She also co-curated and co-produced the exhibition Confronting Carbon Form at The Cooper Union, which exhibited original works in various media that define the spatial concepts of the carbon age. She has published in journals such as Log, AA Files, Perspecta, and e-flux, as well as several essay anthologies. Iturbe previously taught at The Cooper Union, Yale, and Cornell AAP. She is a co-founder of Outside Development, a design and research practice
