Silvia Vercher is an architect who specializes in urban design with 10 years of international experience. Trained in architecture, urban design and urban planning, Silvia draws from her interdisciplinary experience to create culturally rich and ecologically relevant projects from the infrastructural scale to the site level. Silvia actually is working as a designer at Perkins Eastman in New York City.
Silvia ́s design approach is characterized by a critical balance of context, culture, and program. Key to her methodology is the intense investigation of each site ́s relationship to its environment, history, and future economy changes. Silvia ́s work can be found across North and South America, Europe, Middle East, and Asia, and recent projects include: the wining international design competition of 254 Ha Master plan in the center of Guayaquil, Ecuador, together with Perkins Eastman; the ambitious Master plan in Brooklyn, NYC, together with SCAPE; the winning international design competition and construction of the Rike Park in Tbilisi, Georgia, together with CMD Ingenieros; and the collaboration of the Zurich tower in Mexico City with FR-EE. Also, she has been invited to participate as a lecturer in some of the most significant urban design symposiums such as Habitat III, Ecuador, and World Urban Forum 9, Malaysia.
Silvia holds a Master of Architecture and Urban Design with Distinction from Columbia University, Master of Urban Planning from the University of South Australia in Australia and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University Polytechnic of Valencia in Spain and the Aarhus Arkitekskolen in Denmark.