Elisa Iturbe is an architectural designer, writer, and educator. Her research looks at 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. Iturbe has taught courses on fossil capitalism and carbon modernity at The Cooper Union, Yale School of Architecture, and Cornell AAP. She is an assistant professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Design and co-founder of Outside Development, a design and research practice.
Her writings have been published in AA Files, Log, Perspecta, New York Review of Architecture, and E-Flux. She guest-edited Log 47, titled “Overcoming Carbon Form,” and co-wrote a book with Peter Eisenman titled Lateness.
At MacDowell, Iturbe worked on the manuscript of an upcoming book that combines both scholarly and visual research in order to study the relationship between energy, capitalism, and spatial organization. Iturbe has lectured nationally and internationally on the topic, and curated and produced an exhibition in 2023 at The Cooper Union titled Confronting Carbon Form.
